ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12616, 20 November 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.)

WHAXGAREI, this day. Ihe police have received information that » six-year-old boy, Keith Osborne, was drowned at Kaimamaku, 30 miles north of Whangarei, yesterday. The details to hand are meagre. •' AUCKLAND, this day. U.- Wesley .Spragg, president of the Aew Zealand Alliance, Mas thrown from a. buggy, which capsized. OM-ing to the horse bolting. Mr Spragg was rendered unconscious, and Mas rather severely, .injured. He i« progressing as satisfactorily as can ; be expected,, put his condition is causing his frieiids anxiety, PALMERSTON X... last night. At the inquest concerning the death of' ex-Detective Benjamin, a verdict Mas returned- that deceased committed suicide while temporarily insane. V WELLINGTON, this day. Antonio Ferrati, aged 23. and Roberta Pejjins left Mana Island yesterday morning m a small boat_. aild when crossing the bar of Porirua harbor a violent squall upset the boat. Ferrati attempted to swim to the approaching rescue boat, but sank, and was not seen again. Pezins hung on to the overturned boat till rescued. Deceased was a native of Italy. He had not been long m the Dominion; and has no relations m the Dominion.

TIMARU, last night. The need of a by-law to compel the use of lights on vehicles on busy country loads by night was illustrated by an accident, near Geraldine. A party of three cyclists all collided with a horse and trap m the dark. The cyclists were more or less bruised, and the horse swerved, all the occupants of the trap, three ladies, a man and a child, being thrown out. The man had his collarbone broken, and jone lady received a bad cut on the heail. The others escaped with bruises.

CHRISTCHURCH, last night. A peculiar raihwy collision occurred on Saturday afternoon at the Park road crossing of the double line between Christchurch and Addington. The train from Addington to Christchuich had passeil when the driver of a grocer's cart, unaware that the train from Christchurch m-*is going south, was about to pass on the further set of rails,' and failing to appreciate the crossing-keeper's signals, essayed to cross. The engine struck the cart m the middle, and the driver of it was thrown out on his head, and taken to the hospital m a semi-con-scious condition. ,He is now m a fair ; \vaVj \o recovery, and no bone* were braken. The horse was carried some distance by the engine, but escaped practically unhurt.

A young man named Philip Harte met Wf^lCji -'.^nasty accident at Murchison on l'i^4ay. While working at the savmili. he hnd his hand nearly severed from Jjhe arm by the circular saw. Dr. Warneford M-as called m, and there /is 'fsome;hope. at present of the hand being saved.

A serious accident occurred at AraDargaville, on Tuesday. A . boy M] narhed Arthur Rowland, aged 14 years, took home an empty calcium carbide drum, and, placing it m a vacant snot, threw m some Mater, and then ap plied a. match. An explosion occurred, which knocked the youthful experimenter down', , and it is feared that his sight will be permanently injured.