ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6382, 3 December 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND. December 2. A handcart man named Louis Rudolph Kingston, sixty-eight years of age, dropped dead in Queen street this afternoon. Death is supposed to have been due to heart disease. DARGAVILLE, December 2. Edward Mulhcrn, nine years of age, while bathing in the Kaihu. creek on Sunday afternoon, got out of his depth, and was drowned. Hie mother, wlio witnessed the occurrence, made a determined but ineffectual attempt at rescue. ' HAWERA, December 2. Hector Morrison, aged eight year®, eon of a settlor at Waihi, was caught in the belting of. milking machinery on Saturday, and was so.badly injured, several limbs being broken, that he died yestcrday ‘ GISBORNE, December 2. The body of a middle-aged man, well dressed, was found floating in the c?urf off Waikanae beach this morning. It appeared not to have been in the water very long; the arms were folded across the breast, and there was a wound on the back of tho head, from which the blood was flowing. In a hip pocket was a Panama hat, and in tho vest a key with sixjvnce attached to n piece of blue paper, with rl John Owens, Enfield road, Napier/* written thereon. The body has not been identified locally. • It is supposed to bo a man. who must have fallen from the steamer 'Waikato yesterday, and not been missed. jna.lm.Eß, December 2. In reference to the telegram from Gisborne about the finding of a body, inquiries show Air John Owens is in Napier. It is supposed, from the description, given, that the body is that of a man named David James Young Kirk, who was in tho employ of Nelson Bros., Ltd., Tornoana, as a slaughterhouse clerk. He left on transfer to their Gisborne branch on November 25th, but has not put in an appearance at the works there.

A youth named Claude Flaherty, about seventeen year© of age, «'ho is employed by Mr Thawley. grocer, of Tory street, while driving his cart yesterdav, fell off the vehicle and suffered a fraefure ol his loft thigh. He was removed to the hospital, whore his injury was attended to.