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Temuka Leader, Issue 2339, 5 April 1892, Page 2

Accidents.—On Saturday at Kai-iwi, near Wanganui, youth a named William Bullock, eighteen, while engaged at a threshing machine, slipped, and one leg got caught in the drum of the machine, and was terribly crushed. He died the same night; it was three hours before he received medical assistance. —At a polo match at Wanganui the same afternoon, William Chapman fell off his pony on to his head, and remained unconscious for three hours. He is expected to recover. A youth named Garin Alexander, broke his wrist at Momohaki, near Wanganui, on Saturday morning. —At Wellington on Saturday some piles were being removed from under a house with a view to lowering it, when they suddenly gave way. A man named Maliue and a boy named Jenkins were beneath, and only escaped being crushed to death by two .or three piles holding fast and protecting them. As it. was they were severely injured, ' I