ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 124, 18 July 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association A r !'e Kuiti, duly 18. Sid Dovercaux, bushman, aged 23, was out nig shooting on Sunday at Pukctiti, when in lifting Ida gun from the ground I y l!;c barrel. it went off, cliscluu ging the contents in his right lung, swe-oly injuring him. A pu iy of ur n conveyed aim lion; •i o’clock on Sunday iiii 7 a.m. on Monday, then reaching the road. Devore.utx «as ait; rv.ards convoyed to Te Kuiti in a pig, ’•■at teniblo mods had to be gone over before reaching him. On Monday be was taken to the Waikato hospital, v.lime be is lying in a low state. Dunedin, duly 18. The body of a man named Jackson, apparently beta on forty and Id tv, was found last night in a house in King Street, which he rented. It is believed deceased bad been employed on one of the Peninsular dairy farms. Chri.st; bureh, July 18. John Richard Soper, plasterer, aged -I t, was kill al this morning while cycling to town from his home at St .Albans. The road was slippery with frost, and in turning a corner Soper’s machine side-slipped, and his head struck the ground violently, the skull being fractured.