ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13300, 9 February 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) OAMARU, this day. A young man, Roy Patterson, son of ( John W. Patterson, of , the Telegraph i Department, -hvercargill, was drowned i while surf at Bushby beach i yesteiday. The body .has .not yet been « recovered. DUNEDIN, last night; ( The body of a man about 55 years of 2 age and about sft Bin m height, was ( found m Tahuna Park this afternoon, i There was an open razor m the right' hand, and a wound on the' left wrist, ] but no report is given of other injury, i Th* body is clothed m a greenish check i suit, and' there was a set of artificial ( upper teeth m one pocket. Deceased ] appears to have been a working man, i but there is no clue to identity further ( than that the trouser buttons are branded "A. Porter, . Invercaxgill." ] < WHile riding one of his horses m tho J maiden jump at the Waerenga-o-kuri < sports on Saturday Mr Albert Sintbri > sustained a nasty fall. The^ horse, which ? has the reputation of being a good jumper, crashed into the rail jump. Mr < Sinton was thrown on his head, and was picked up unconscious. Medical ' itid was called, and the uihfortunate 1 rider was brought into town to a private, hospital. To-day he was still unconscious, but his condition was easier. I