ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16541, 15 November 1915, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Pen Dkitbd Phkas Associatioh.l .'-'-{ GISRORNE, November 13. % Noil Macdonald, 62 years of age, a -i * labourer, was found drowned in the river. .'_■"; A Maori woman named Kakeho Tohutu, °'l.j 5S venrs of ape, : was thrown from a horsa "§ at Tikitiki, and killed TE KTJITI, November 13. ?■{ Harold Gillespie, 22 years of age, a son . . •'■ of one of the original Tangitu settlers, wal drowned while crossing the Mapui Stream on horseback. Ho had just enlisted. The storm that raged during Friday .' <■■ night was a contributing cause of a fatality .' ..' in the bush at Mangatiti (says the Wanga- v ;f nui Herald). Two "brothers, Peter and ->j Henry Wi, of To Kuiti, were engaged in a ? felling contract on Mr Tansey's property. ''< When Henry Wi emerged from his tent on ~'' ; Saturday morning he saw that his brother's ' \- tent, was crushed by a fallen tree lying - »,f across it. and further investigation disclosed ,i the shocking fact that the occupant had <"'; been killed in bed by the tree. The con- 'i veyance of tho body on a stretcher to .* i Ruatiti by several settlers involved 'a diffi- . ■ C cult task, the 12 miles traversed being obstructed in manv places by slips. At an ■ /','■ inquest at Raetihi on Monday a verdict of -jl. accidental death was returned. {%