ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10778, 29 May 1911, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pee Pbess Association.) I Duncdin, May 28. Steward Robertson, 21 years of age,: who was playing i" the second grade; Ikigby football match at Monteeillo on I Saturday afternoon, received an injury, during the open play, and retired. As) he was in great pain he w;is 'taken to : the hospital in the' evening, where he: died this morning. The medical examination revealed the fact that deceased: had sustained a, lacerated- kidney. ; . liivercargill, May 28. . . James Gill, a bushman at Edgerton's mill, 'the other day met with a nasty accident which will incapacitate him for some time. It appears that while carrying a saw and axe in the "bush he stumbled and fell on the upturned blade of 'the- axe, severing the sinews in the forearm. The cut was seven inches in length, and required twelve stitches. The sufferer lost a considerable quantity of blood before reaching the mill, but on arrival he was attended to and driven into AVinton for medical aid. Wellington, May 28. At 0.4-') last night a seaman named William Nockles, aged 31, a single man, recently from England, fell off the gangway into the. harbor when going aboard Ins' vessel, the Kavna. Nockles str.uck his heajtl- against the wharf in falling. He was takpn out of the water alb once, but showed no signs ; of life. A doctor was summoned and pronounced life to l)c extinct- An inquest is taking place this afternoon.