ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 83, 3 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

SHOT WHILE HUNTING. (Per Press Association.) \ . Gisborne, December 2. Michael McCormack, about 40 years old, a roadman at Motu, shot himself in the thigh on Sunday while pighunting, and splintered the bone. A special train brought him to Gisborne at an early hour this morning, and he died at the hospital to-night.

A young Maori man named Kawa, engaged in felling bush on the Mold Road, about twelve miles from Uruti, had the misfortune to be struck by a falling tree on Saturday afternoon. He was knocked about fifty feet down a gully, and when he was picked up it was thought his back was broken (says the ‘Waitara Mail’), but when the sufferer was medically examined it was found that he had his hip out of joint, and a couple of ribs broken, and that he was otherwise much shaken. Mr. Alexander Glasgow’s place at Waigaehu was the scene of a sad faality on Sunday week. His little son, Grant Alexander, had been playing with two other children, in the sheep yards, and it was discovered that the boy was missing. On search being made he was found in a sheep dip. A doctor who was sent for, arrived too late to be of any use. An engineer named A. Watkins, employed in the Christchurch railway sheds, had an almost miraculous escape from death a few days ago. He was,crossing the lines when the buffer of a truck struck him and knocked him down between the lines. Six trucks passed over him, and the un-der-gear of each tore his clothing, even to his shirt. He was carried about six yards, and dropped in a hollow near the points. Apart from shock and the shaking ho was unhurt.