ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12585, 16 October 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.)

TIMARU,. this day. By a collision between a taxi-cab and a gig on Saturday night on a hill a mile north of the town, a horse trainer, Edward Blackmore, was seriously injured on the head and body. The gig was without lights, and the' collision took place at a sharp corner. Blackmore was progressing well this morning. WESTPORT, last night. At the inquest on the body found m the Buller river, evidence was given by. the fireman on the s.s. Kini, identifying it as that of Robert Bugby, formerly fireman on the Regulus, but at the -time he, disappeared on Saturday night, September 30th, v fireman, m the s.s. Gertie. Deceased: was a native of London, 26 years of age., and has a< brother at -sea on the s.s. Aorangi.

A young man named Young met with ,a painful accident at the fire last night. Some civilians'; took the hose reel up from Carriarvbn street, and when they were nearing the scene of 'the -fire, Young essayed to expedite matters, and went to open the fire plug. He was m the act of doing sio* when the other helpers arrived. They did not observe their a-ssistant., arid he received a severe blow on the head with "the wheel of the hose reel, inflicting an tigly gash. : He was partly stunned, but after his wound was attended to he was able to walk home.