ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 118, 11 July 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Whangarei, July 10.

Jim McKay, aged 45, married, with one child, was jammed between a h-g ait 1 t: standing tree at Finlay.>oa Lush. Mahp‘i.i,.l’ia, on Saturday af: i-iiur-.i He survived only an bom. Napier, July 10. Joseph Snowden, a seaman on board the Tarawera, was killed instantaneously as the boat -was being berthed at the breakwater this morning. As a rope was running through the chock, the latter broke, and a heavy piece of iron was hurtled through the air and struck Snowden, who was some fifteen feet away, a terrific blow on the right side at the head. Deceased is believed to belong to Dunedin. ACCIDENT TO A MAIL COACH (Per Press Association.) Westport, July 10. Through the horses shying at a man’s coat on the"“roadside a mail coach and five passengers were precipitated some 40 feet down a siding at a spot on the Buller Road three miles above Mangahua Junction on Saturday. The horses, the driver, and the forecarriage remained on the road. Nobody was hurt. The coach was damaged. One passenger, a commercial traveller named Hoycock, was in a, coach accident at Westport four months ago. Esther Maria ('ox, of Stratford, has filed a declaration of insolvency.