ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17156, 5 October 1926, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

. FALL FROM POWER POLE. LINESMAN BADLY HURT. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Grave injuries were sustained by Cecil Austin. 29, married, to-day, when he fell 25 feet from the top of an electric power pole on which he-was I working at Newmarket. Austin lost his hold of the. pole and fell on to a pavilion, sustaining head injuries, abrasions to body and fractured wrist. I He was removed to the hospital, and ■ 'to-night Lis condition is reported to DO grave. j WELL-KNOWN FARMER KILLED. ACCIDENT IN A GIG. W AIM ATE. last, night. ' William MeCshrwA, a well-known farmer at Hook., married, with eight children, nfhen driving home in a fog late on Saturday night, went over an embankment, the gig capsizing. McCarron was found later lying dead under the vehicle, only his head being above the surface of a pool. His I face showed signs of having been kicked by the horse. CUT HIS THROAT. MAN IN SERIOUS CONDITION. AUCKLAND, last night. Suffering from severe cuts on the V throat John Dyer, single, aged about : for*v, lie> in a serious condition- in the Auckland Hospital. He was found Iving on the doorstep of a house at Edendale, and said he cut his -throat with a razor in a clump of gorse b'e- | tween Ml. Eden and Edendale on Saturdflv evening, and had been wandering about in the vicinity ever since. He stated lie came from Wellington •about four months ago, and had been working at Orakei.

DUE ,TO HEART FAILURE

YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH. DUNEDIN, this day. At the adjourned inquest, concerning the death of Jane Wice Hamilton, 32, who suddenly expired on September 26, a verdict was returned that death was due to sudden heart failure.

DROWNED IN RIVER

MAN WASHED FROM HORSE. AUCKLAND, this day. Roberti Pitman, 37, was drowned in the Waiawa river while trying, to ford the river on horseback, while the svspeiiMon- bridge was under repairs. Tie wi?s weaiirig an oilskin ani gum boots, and apparently -was swept from •Ins horse by the flood wafer. The horse got ashore. ______