ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9299, 15 December 1891, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pin. Unitki) Pi.'Kss Association.) Al-cklanii, December 1.. A young man named Norman Kemp, 19 years ol* age, was killed by lightning at AVainpu on Saturday. About half-past 12 that day a heavy thunderstorm wns experienced in the district". Kemp was silting in his father's house, and his two sisters were in the same room, when a llish of lightning passed down the chimney, striking Kemp and killing him instantly. A table and other furniture in the room were smashed. Kemp was the son of a settler in tb-district. Another account says that one of the sisters was rendered deaf by the thunderbolt. On Saturday evening Jlrs If. Reynolds, wife of a well-known settler at Cambridge, Waikato. disappeared from her borne, and though a search party has been organised sbe has mil been seen. ' AViiiisiriiiN, December 11 Gimlet!, lln- butcher who accidentally indicted a severe wo.llld oil lli.or ell about a "foil- ■ (■-lit :i.;o while uorl-iiigiil. thol.VnH'on.pain's r.|:,llr;llfelil,g Yards, died in the Wellington ! Hospital Ibis morning. A little .Maori girl, the daughter of AVnteno Tenchii, was drowned in AVaikrniao river „„ , Saturday. AVamianci, December 14. ' As the Hon. Jlr Cadman was proceeding up ' the Wanganui river nn Saturday, he was thrown heavily from bis horse, owing to the animal trending on a boiibler^.-i-id falling. He had r nearly 30 miles lo f ravel after the accident on a - rough road. Jlr Lawry proceeded lo Tokaanu ' and sent back a buggy. .Ah- ('admin had to , ride 30 miles to meet the buggy. This he did, though suffering very much"," and arrived at I Tokitaiiiiaiy.3op.nl. lb- is much belter (his | lumping, and hopes to be able to proceed on his •' way to-day. and reach Otorrrhringa on Thurs- ' day. A man named John IJnrus was drowned in , (he Waiau river nt Parnassus station rCrinli-r----l.r.u-i ion Sunday. The body was recovered 1 (lii'i-e hours afterwards.

I The body of a rabbitter named Sinclair, em!- --! ployed on Tarras station, was found about two miles from Tarras yesterday. Owing to his not reaching the homestead on Saturday for his usual rations, Search parties went out to look for him. Sinclair had visited Cromwell last month to consult a medical man. He was a, native of Scotland, where he hadbeena bank clerk,and was in Southland before he went to work ou the Tarras station.