ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) CHRISTOHUROH, this day. A dairyfarmer named Thomas Bevai.s, single, /was found d^ad at Kaituna yesterday.' NELSON, last night. A seaman named Harold Clements, residing at Nelson, was lost overboard from the steamer Wairoa during thr voyage from Nelson to Takaka last night. Clements was relieved by t.'ie captain at the wheel at a late hoar, and went forward. He was not seen afti iwards. ASHBURTON, last night, A man about, 60 years of age, name unknown, was found drowned to-day in a pool of water in the Ashburton river near the traffic bridge. (Special to Ueral'd.) NAPIER, tius day. An- old man named Fullcrton, an inmate of the Old People's Home, n.et witli a rather serious accidnet on Saturday afternoon.. 'Whilst roaming about Park Island he fell over a cliit, and when found was in a bad way, beingi severely injured about the head. He was, brought into the hospital, where he is receiving every attention.

While a girl named Newton, employed at Middle Farm, Grey-southen, \in ur Cockermouth (Cumberland, England), was stooping down to remove a bowl of cream from a separator, her hair was caught 'by the revolving spindle, and drawn into the machine. Her master tried to cut her hair away with a knife, but was hampered by her combs and pins, and she was not released until the separator had torn her scalp off.. Mr William Thomas/who took up kind at the Tripp settlement, in the vicinity of Geraldine, left home on Saturday morning, May 24, to attend to so.nt sheep, and .remarking that he -might git a hare he took his gun with him. About 9.30 Mrs Thomas heard the report of a gun. As her husband did -'-hot return at dinner-time she sent a boy to look for him. The boy returned shortly before 1 o'clock, saying there was a man lving down, by the fence, and thereupon MrThomas went to see who it was. .ind found her husband with part of his h.-ad blown away and evidently dead. Constable O'Grady and Dr. Hislop went out from Geraldine as soon as the sad) eventwas' reported, and the constable found deceased lying with the right side oi his head blown away and his hat fully 40 feet awaV. Both hammers of the gun were . down, though one cartridge had niidsed fire, and the triggers were can. lit in the middle wire of a fence. There was no guard over the triggers. It was evident that deceased was endeavoring to get through the fence when, the accident happened. The deceased, who was a native of Lincoln, near Christchurch, was 36 years of age. He leaves a widow and six children. Hia holding was of about '44o acres.