ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5728, 25 October 1905, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

PIIESS ASSOCIATION". AUCKLAND October 24. A. woman named Driscoll met with a serious accident tb-niclit. She accidentally sot her clothes a fight with a candle. She was badly burned and her condition is'critical. A settler named Robert Bell, of Pawene, met with a serious accident last week whilo engaged in hauling logs to Takeke river with a bullock team. One of the logs got across the track, and Bell went to move it with a jack. When the bullocks started off again, a rotten tree was lorn down and fell upon the unfortunate man. He was nicked up unconscious, and taken-to Eawenb Hospital. He never recovered consciousness, death occurring two days Inter. As a medical certificate was given to the effect that death was duo to pneumonia no inquest was held. DUNEDIN, October 24. At an inquest at Beaumont on Alexander McGregor, drowned off the Golden river dredge, nt Roxburgh Gorge) the jury found death was due to a fall from the dredge caused by a defective handrail. It 'added a rider that the dredgefnaster should have seen to the railing immediately on receiving notice from tho inspector. WANGANUI, October 24.

Owing to tbe strop of the rope on a loghauling engine breaking at Knight’s sawmills at Utiku, a man named William Hoapy, had his right leg cut off below the knee. The sufferer was taken, to the Wanganui Hospital. He is progressing satisfactorily. *

John Broadbent. fifty-nine years of age, and Frederick Pittman, twenty-five, while excavating in the Upper Butt district yesterday, -wore, partly buried, by a fall of earth. Pittman’s right leg was fractured below the knee. Broadbent received slight injury to his right shoulder. Both men were removed to the Wellington District Hospital. •■Whilst engaged killing rodents at the Gear Company 3 works. Petoue, yesterday, Charles Philp, a married man. twenty-six years of age, had a tendon of an instep cut with a knife. He was removed to the District Hospital.