FOUR FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4772, 25 January 1887, Page 2

FOUR FATAL ACCIDENTS.

A PECULIAR DEATH. Hawera, to-day. A girl named Jessie Banner, living near Stratford, has died under very peculiar circumstances. She was about 9 years of age and living with her uncle, Me Blair by whom she was sent to another Mr Blair, a few chains off, for a pot. The Mr Blair, by whom she was sent, thinking she was a long time away, wont to see where she was and discovered her quite dead with her head under "the sash. The people to whose house she was sent were at church, and the supposition is that she was getting in or out of the window when the sash came down. Chkistchitrch, to-day. This morning Leonard Thomas Pavitt, aged 17, a son of T. Pavitt, merchant, was drowned in the river at Heathcote while bathing near Wilson's bridge. He wag unable to swim and was washed off his feet and carried into a deep pool. The body was recovered half an hour afterwards, but life was extinct. The body of a man 35 years old, 5 feet 8 inches in height, stout, and of a fair complexion, was found in the river near Woolston. The body had evidently been in the water about a week. It was not | identified. Wellington, to-day. With regard to the lift accident it is now supposed that when the chain broke Retching was struck by it on the head so that his legs hung over the side. When the cage reached the ground half his body was thus underneath and was frightfully mangled. A brake had been fitted to the lift but did not act. It was calculated to work a load of two tons, and as only half a tf>n was in at the time the chain wag evidently defective. The manager states that his orders were that no ono was to ascend by the lift, and Ketohing was aware of this. The victim was 29 years of age, and had been six months at Hayman's. The boy Kershavv was bruised on the leg and arm and his face was blackened, but none of his hurts were serious,