ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16594, 18 January 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CPkb Uhitxd Pbbbs Abbocutioji.) j IiO'MIDA, January 17. Wi Whaitiri, a prominent Maori, of Tahoko, was drowned in tho Kafcuna lliver bolow tho Okere Falls wliilo shag shooting on Sunday afternoon. He swam to rotrieve a bird, and was swept away by tho ouxroat. The body has not been recovered. WELLINGTON, January 17. John Bell Shelbourno, aged 67, lost hiß life oarly this morning in tho destruction by firo of a workshop at Petone, whoro ho had been in the haiiit of sleeping. Dooeased suiterod from deafness, and presumably waa suffocated while asleep. NELSON, January 17. Whilo endeavouring to avoid injuring a child who ran across tho rood at tho Richmond crossing this afternoon, a motor car driver had Ins attention diverted from an approaching train, and the car struck the engine. Of the five occupanis of tlie car one, a girl aged 12 years, and named Rhodes, residing at Motueka, was rather seriously injured, tho flesh being stripped from her leg by the wheels of the engine. She had a miraculous escapo from death. None of tho othors was seriously injured. Whilo helping other soldiers to truck horses at Lambton station on Thursday, Sergeant E. G. F. Harsden, a member of the artillery section of the Tenth Reinforcements, was kioked on tho left leg, which was badly fractured' fcelow the knee (says the Wellington Post). First aid was rendered by Matron Kobn, of tho Davis Street Private Hospital, and Sorgoant Marsden was then conveyed to the Victoria Hospital. Private advice was received. in Waimato on Wednesday of tho death by drowning of Arthur Hilder, the second son of Mrs B. D. Steffens, of Hook (says the Advertiser). Mr Hilder was employed on the Wanaka sheep station, and tho advice of his death was from the manager of the station, telegraphing from Pembroke. At latest advices the body had not been recovered. The young man would be about 22 years of ago. He was up in the Waunate district, and" was a member of the Waimate Company of tho Bth Mouutcds. Leslie Mathewßon, nine years of age, whoso parents reside at Musselburgh, was run over last evening by a motor oar driven by Captain Hankey, _ and received injuries to his foot, necessitating his removal to the Hospital. Tho accident was caused through the boy jumping off a tramcar whilst it was in motion, and getting in front of tho motor cox. • _

A ooal miner, named William Sloott, a native of Wiltshire, _ England, lately employed as a coal miner at the New Big River mine, met with, his death at the coal mine belonging to that company on Wednesday morning. Ho and his mate Jones (the Westport News states) were working down coal from tie fafce, when a fall of coal from' the roof pinned the unfortunate man in tho debris. His mate Jones, assisted by Eddie Loughnane, endeavoured to extricate the injured mail, who was still conscious, and was moaning with pain. Just as his mates had succeeded in freeing him from the debris, a further fall of ooal took place, a large piece falling directly on to the left temple and fracturing the skull. An accident, which unhappily wa»» attended by fatal results, occurred at the Mangatina section of the Millerton mine on Thursday, when J. Robinson met his death as the result of a fall of ooal. Tho _ deceased was a member of tho committee of the local union. He leaves a wifo and large family to mourn their loss.