ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 30 October 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.)

Nelson, October 29,

Mr D'Avcy Irvine, Government staff surveyor, met with a serious accident at the Franco Pass on Thursday, sustaining a fracture of the skull through being struck by a falling tree. H n was >; on-Jit l,y launch to Nelson and now ties n a grave condition ir* i je bespit'i

Marion, October 29. F. Schwass, a farmer, residing in the Turakina Valley, was drowned in the Turakina river on Saturday while driving aerws in a drayj which capsized. His companion drifted- to the overhanging willows and was rescued. The horse, was drowned. So far Schwarts’s bady has not been recovered. ■ '

Auckland, October 30

At the City Council yards this morning a quantity .of tar boiled over and a man named John Mulverhill was smothered with blazing tar. The blaze was quickly extinguished, but Mulverhill’s injuries were serious, necessitating his removal to the hospital. Christchurch, October 30. George Saunders, a widower, aged 60, was killed at Hornby on Saturday by a fall from the roof of a shed which ho was repairing, his neck being broken.