ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 14398, 4 January 1911, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A GUN ACCIDENT. '

Per Press Association. ' . WELLINGTON, Jsik 8.-*; A man named Patrick Ryan,.asinglo man employed at Lambton. Station,' was admitted to the Wellington Hos---pital on Saturday night, suffering from a gunshot wound in the foot. Tho. injury was accidentally self-inflicted at Makara on Saturday evening. Eyanwas out after rabbits with a <-, gtm.: Coming down a steep hillside his- foot slipped on a loose stone, and bo foil* In falling lie tried to throw his loaded; gun clear, hut in the effort somehow; pulled the trigger. The charge. ex-I ploded, and Ryan was shot in tho foot. When he was taken to the hospital onetoe had to be amputated. • * A BOY KILLED. DUNEDIN. Jan. 3. ; A boy named John Perkins, fouryears old, was badly crushed by a logi rolling on him at tho Hunt Road, Cat-; lins district, on December 26. -He succumbed to his injuries this morning., DEATH FROM HEART DISEASE. NELSON, Jan. 8. Frank Baymohd Thompson, twenty years of ago, residing with his parents at Foxhill, died suddenly tins morning. At the inquest a verdict of death from heart disease was returned. EFFECTS OF A FALL. . WANGANUI, Jan. 8. A Wanganui lady met with a painful accident last Tuesday. While standing on a chair trying to locate a gas leak, she fell, breaking a wrist and two ribs, in addition to injuring her spine. Her condition is serious. DEATHS FROM APOPLEXY. AUCKLAND, Jan. 4., Miss Charlotte Stewart, one of a picnic party, had an apoplectic seizure on Coromandel beach, and was removed tq the hospital where she expired. LOST IN THE BUSH. AUCKLAND, Jan. 3. Mrs. Mary Spragg, who resides at Mount Albert, Auckland, mysteriously disappeared from, her summer residence on Wiiitakerei Ranges on Saturday evening. Search parties were out during Sunday and Monday, but it was not until yesterday afternoon that she was found entangled in tho bush -on tho ranges. She was in a position, from' which she could not free . herself, - and had experienced a very trying time, and was in a very weak condition. AUCKLAND, Jan. 4, . Mrs. Sprang, who was found; after having been three days lost in the Waitakerei Bush, died this morning ofpneumonia. A CHILD DROWNED. THAMES, Jan. 8. - A child of threo, tho daughter of Robert Ritchie, a well-known settler at Puriri, near Thames, while playing with her brother, fell off a hedge into a creek below, and was drowned beford help was secured. WHARF LABOURER KILLED: GISBORNE, Jan. 4. A wharf labourer named Charles Poison, aged 49, was killed this morning whilst working in the hold of a lighter, a sling containing 7 cwt. . p.f. salt falling on him. Death was instantaneous.