ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4488, 16 October 1901, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondents.) EKETAHUNA, October 15. A settler named Lafgreen, working on the new bridge over the -Mangataiuoka, at Stirling, fell from the struo_ ture yesterday, and was considerably bruised. A nasty buggy accident happened to Mr J. Jones, a well-known storekeeper, on the Alfredton road yesterday. Tie horse he was driving commenced kicking vigorously, and took complete command, and the animal, endeavouring to negotiate a wire fence, Mr Jones was thrown heavily on the road, receiving nasty scalp wounds, a fracture of the small bone of the left leg, and was severely bruised about the body. MASTERTON, October 15. A man named Leonard was getting off a waggon at Opaki this afternoon when his foot caught in a rope, and he was ■ dragged under the vehicle, the wheels of which passed over his body. A number of ribs were broken, and internal injuries were received, The man was brought to Masterton, where he lies in a critical condition. CARTERTON, October 15,

Mrs N. Grace, wife of a well-known Gladstone runholder, while driving yesterday on the Gladstone road, about eight miles from Carterton, was thrown from the gig through the horse bolting. Mrs , Grace was picked up insensible, and was found to have sustained a fracture of the scapula and several severe bruises about the face and body. -