Accidents and Fatalities.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 7214, 19 May 1898, Page 1

Accidents and Fatalities.

(BY TELEGKA.ni.) Wellington, May 18. A shocking accidont, which it Is feared may end fatally, occurred on Monday ah Harrison 8r03.' sawmill, Pakuratahi, beyond the Uppor I-lutfc. A benehman, ft young man named William Lawrence waß engaged in cutving survey pegs with a circular saw, when tho timbor which ho was outline: roso on tho back edgo of tho saw and was thrown with groat forco against his chest, crushing in snmo of his ribs. A telegram describes his condition as critical. Auckland, May 18. Tho man M'lvillan, or J. M'Nadam, who was killed on a trolly on tho Mokau section of tho North Island Trunk Railway, is supposed to havo como from tho south. OniusTcmrncii, May 18. Margaret Magdaleno Kissel, aged 17, a daughter of H. A. Kissel, saddlor, Doyleston, died suddenly at tho house of Mrs Whito, at Sumner, at half-past two yesterday afternoon. Deceased was not robust, and had previously been refused a medical certificate of fitnoss as a school teacher. On that account no inquest will beheld. n/r ,o IsvEKCAHGiLt., May 18. Information has reached town thab a coffin containing a skeleton has boon found on tho boach near Waipnpapa Point, on which " S.S. Tararua," wrecked eighteen years ago, is writton. Most of those then drowned were burled in tho Tararua acre, close by ; but whothor tho sea has encroached on tho burial ground or whether tho coffin has como from Bomo other place is nob yet known here.