ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12816, 16 July 1912, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■ : ,< • '. t (Per Frees Association.) v AUCKLAND, this day. A young man, George Croul, was drowned m the Kirikiri river, ' close to his home. His boat capsized 200 yards from the shore. The accident -was witnessed by several people, but Groul sank before help could reach him. His vdead body was recovered later. WELLINGTON, this day. An- inquest was held yesterday on the body of John Mcc, aged 63, who died suddenly at the house of his sister late on Saturday night. A verdict of death from hemorrhage of the lungs was returned. OHRISTCHURCH, this day. The five-year-old son of C. Smith, buildei*, has been missing since Friday afternoon. The police have been dragging the river without results. Further details as to the death pf Dr. James Hudson, of Tapawera, sho\V that while descending Spooner's Range on the v > town side m a motor car, Dr. Hudson, who was accompanied by his daugh- '! ter, was driving the car at a steady i pace, and when negotiating a corner half-way down the hill, the wheels of the car skidded, and it went over the bank. The car overturned, and Dr. Hudson and Miss Hudson were thrown out. The former struck his head against a boulder, fracturing his skull, and was killed instantaneously. : ; Miss Hudson escaped unhurt. Dr. Pearless was summoned, but found Dr. Hudson quite' dead, and the body was cbnveyed to Belgrove. The bank where the car went over was not very ■ steep, the car not being more than 15 feet from the road. An accident of a serious nature occurred at Waitara on Sunday at about 3 o'clock m- the afternoon. The brothers Klenner, sons of Mr A. Klenner, butcher, were down on the sandhills shooting, when the gun held by the elder boy was accidentally discharged, and a pellet entered his brother's forehead! The lad, • Francis- Harold Klenner, was standing about fifteen paces away when this occurred. He was immediately brought into town by motor-car and admitted to the public hospital. He it suffering severely from shock, but is otherwise doing as well as can be ex- x pected under the cirotimstances. . A drowning accident happened at Stewart Island on Friday, when Mr Garnet Bruce Mackie, manager of the Rimu Sawmilling Company, lost his life off the mouth of the Murray riveiv Mr Mackie, who was 29 years of age and married } with three of a family, proceeded m a launch to the s.s. Invercargill m connection Avith some business matter, and, when about to return to the shore, said '"all right" to the engineer, who started the engine, but looking round a few minutes later found that Mr Mackie was not aboard. The launch returned to the Invercargill, and. a search was made, but no trace of the body was found. It is surmised that Mr Mackie tripped, striking hip head' on something, and that when he fell into the water he was unconscious. Deceased was a son of the late Mr- George Mackie, who for many years carried -on a sawmilling business m Southland, and of Mrs Mackie, who resides at Makarewa; The sawmill M-hich the late Mr Mackie, junr., managed, was the most isolated m the industrial district, but being generously disposed towards the workmen, he nad no difficulty m obtaining labor. He was a member of the . Southland Sawmill Workers' Union, and , was vevv popular, not only amonjgst the men under ihim, but with $11 with ;\vhoni; he came m contact. ♦ .. ■ ■