Accidents and Fatalities.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12288, 22 June 1903, Page 5

Accidents and Fatalities.

Per Press Association. ' ! Nelson, Jmno 21. ] A shoaldn£ ' fatality oc*furred at Col-] lingwood last evening.^,, Two brothers i named . MqGrane were larking together ! when the elder, agefd 19, picked up and j pointed a pea rifle at the younger, believing it to be unloaded. The weapon went off, anU the lad was shot in the. face, death resulting. The elder brother was arrested and charged with' manslaughter. _ , Auckland, June 21. An inquest was held tp-jday on the bodies of the three men who lost their '■ lilves in the disastrous fire at • the Shakespeare boarding house on Friday morning. The victims were identified as Marlvo Mai&ovitch an Austrian. .Walter Speakman ■ a giUmidigger, aaVd Baj>i Hatorete a Maori. The. verdict was that deceased, lost their lives by accidorit during' the fire. Wellington, June 21. The body found floating in the haribour on Thursday night has been identified as tliat of a labqurer named .William Abbott. A verdict of foudcldrowned was returned at the inquest. - Aahburton, Jiine 122. ' A gun accident happened at Elgin oai Saturday. During the 1 absence of his parents a boy, aged 10, named Jary. .presented a gu,n at .his sisiter, figeil 0, and playfully threatened to shoot her. The gjun happened' to be loadeel, an,d the little girl receive*! the in her arm, which had to foe amputated bcj low the shoulder. • Invercargill, Juno 22. The body "of Donald Forbes, the night watchman who has been missing since J.u?a'e 9t.li was in the I'Oish north of Tm T ercaroil'l on Sunday afternoon. Doceasod, ,'wlio was in ill health, had evidently, fallen o.vhausted and expired, with/wi> a. struq^y^.