ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20930, 21 January 1930, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BOY’S EYESIGHT INJURED. (Pea United Press Association.) _ AUCKLAND, January 20. A. Bain, aged 11, playing at T&kanini, emptied powder from a cartridge into a bottle and inserted a lighted match, and i-ken retired with a companion. As nothing happened, Bain returned, and as he leaned over, the bottle explodfd.v/ and he sustained an injury which it feared will endanger his eyesight, vT, SUICIDE BY DROWNING. " • (Per United Press Atsociatiqh.) HAMILTON, January 20. A. farmer, Abraham Firth.. Wilcock, aged 70, of Te Kowhai, was found drowned in shallow water at the edge of Hamilton Lake on. Sunday morning. He was missed from a private hospital a few hours previously. When found he was wearing his night attire. At the inquest, before Mr Wyvem Wilson, S.M.. a . tffdict suicide by . drowning was returned. . ■ , DEATH IN HOSPITAL. (Per United Press Association.) TE AWAMUTU, January 20. Mr Wyvern Wilson. S.M., continual the inquest to-day into the death’ of Daniel MTSay Seton, who’ diei in the Waikato Hospital on'Decemher 18. After hearing the ‘ evidence ’of Susanna Muldoon, boarding house keeper, and Dr HiskensT’he returned a verdict of deatli from, acute dilation, of the stomach induced by the excessive consumption of alcohol. This decision'is’in accordance with the evidence of the medical officer who conducted the post-mortem examination. - ■ • , r FATAL MOTOR SMASH. . (Per United • Peers Association.) ■. GISBORNE, January 2Q. '• Through -a, car overturning at .Matawhero comer, Eric Ogren,.a middle-aged man, married, with - one child, .suffered a fracture of the-skull from which he died. George Nelson, the driver of the car, received serious injuries, and is now in hospital. . ’. Two other men suffered minor injurics. The. party consisted of waterside workers who had been in the country. to make arrangements for the annual picnic. In’rounding the comer the vehicle got off the crown of; the.- road and became unmanageable and overturned. ' \ ' ’ • ; ' ' ■ i - TRAIN MISHAPTWO PASSENGERS SUFFER. (Per United Press Association.) 6REYMOUTH, January. 20. , Muriel Cochrane, j)f Cpbden, and,Frank Thomas, of Kotuku, were injured yesterday; by . an.. accident on the ’ excursion train returning’ from Arthur’s Pass to i Hokitika. The engine had passed the ■Teremakau bridge near - Jackson’s, when it struck’a worker’s hut, which had been blown oh the .-line. - The hut in'falling struck the .two passengers above-named, who had their arms hanging over the carriage windows. Thomas’s left *nKi was crushed, and was amputated morning at the Grey Hospital. Miss Cochrane’s left arm was double-fractured above the elbow. Another passenger, Miss F. Brown, is reported to be suffering from a fractured wrist HOISTING GEAR BREAKS. ' TVtO MEN' INJURED, (Per United Press Association.) ’ CHRISTCHURCH, January’2o. ' When the’ lifeboat was being hoisted . aboard the steamer,Orewa in; Lyttelton Harbour on Sunday after embarking an angling party, the gear broke, .and the boat fell 14 feet to the water-; Captain W. Jones and W. Ross, a seaman," fell head first-,into the,boat, and were rendered unconscious. - A seaman named j Nelson rescued the injured men. " Nelson ( hoisted the medical flag for assistance, a and navigated, the boat, to'port, where r the injured were-treated for abrasions. FOUND HANGING. (Per United . Press Association,) ASHBURTON, January 20. John’ Ahem Reidy, aged about: 45, a labourer, of Carew, with a wife and family in Ireland, was found hanging iii a threshing mill hut on Mr H, L. Gii|t nail’s farm at Hinds on Saturday. The ihquest revealed no motive. SUSPECTED SUICIDE. The police have' received advice that Alexander Francis Doull, a farmer residing at Henley, was found dead at 6.30 on Sunday morning in his house with his throat cut. He had been depressed on account of ill-health. The deceased, a married man, was 56 years of age.