Accidents and Fatalities.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8222, 15 April 1895, Page 3

Accidents and Fatalities.

Auckland. April 13

In the case of Charle3 Bowden, found shot in the tcrub at Avondule, aud of the boy Lodge, oiushed to death in shifting a house at Waitakeru, the juries returned verdiciß of accidental death.

Tho body ot a nude mac ohi d was found on the beach at Freeman's Bay this afternoon. It had been newly born. A young man Lamtd Skelly, wbile duok shooting at Huntley, while taking bis gun off a onnoe, exploded it, lodging the charge of shot in bis left breast acd lung. He was taken to tbe Waikato Hospital by irain. Chbistchcroh, April 13. A man named James D.mpsey, a gardener, aged 56, died suddenly at St. Albans on Tharsday. At the inquest a v.rJiot was returned of " Died through rupture of a blood Teasel." Wellington, April 13. William BeU, a draper'^ assistant, was bitten by a katipo wbich had got into hiß clothes, while bathing at Pori ua. Eirrgotio measmes had to b» taken, Hia back *wa9 Bocred vrith a razor und blood removed, Poultices were freely used in the dining oar of the train, and after SLfferiug great pain the dangerous pymptcmd verj ovetcome. Palmerston Nobth, Apiil 13. Laet evening a b.iy warned Hen crt Mullens, aged fourteen yeais- fell into the river, while playing with other boys and waß diowaed. The body has not been recovered,

Dunedin, April 13,

Edward Barmtt, a band cutter nt the threshing mill at Arrow, died thi3 afternoon, baying out the main artery in his orm w^ilc workiDg.