ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14431, 26 January 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pr.n Usited FfiESS Association.) HAMILTON, Jamiarj- 25. At Te Riip;i on Saturday, while riding with two oilier Maori boys, Te Rangi Taitiiku (M) was fatally (.•rushed througn a cart overturning in a hole in the road, and pinning liim to the ground by the shoulders. The other occupants were thrown clear, At the inquest ii verdict of accidental death was returned. WTvSTl'Oß'i', January 25. A young man, Abraham Robert Hayman, was instantaneously hilled by a fall of earth and stone from a sluicing face at a mining claim at Giles's terrace. He was pinned down by u stone 1£ ton in weight..

CHRISTCHURCH, January 25. On Monday 1 ast whilst the Prime Minister and party were motoring through Little River at .-. smart pace they met a youth named Bradey, who was riding. On the horn being sounded scveritl times the animni took l'ngiit, with tTie result that the lad was heavily thrown against a verandah post. He was rendered unconscious for some minutes, and is still under the doctor's care.

Ernest Buchanan, five years of age, the son of Mr John Buchanan, was accidentally drowned in the Molyneux River at Tuapeka Mouth on Saturday afternoon. The boy fell into the river while playing on the bank with another child. The body has not been recovered.

Last night .Inspector O'Brien received a wire from Greymonth stating that Charles MTntyrc, about 21 years of age, had been killed in a coal mine at JJutiollie yesterday. The parents of the deceased reside in Duncdin. his father, it was supposed, being an employee in the Hillside Railway Workshops.