ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12911, 28 February 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

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ELTHAM. ¥<:h--v„;nr 27. : j Georga Pf.l'srd. aael 2?. w.-u. driving » j milk cart fro* IvJtham factor*.. **";ien it j rolKded with a. p 9 '**i:ie >;bi1»;:- sMaswri. j mi) -vrus «<p.«ct. He swfrtced » i'«'l:«!l. and van •«mr#re4 in a «cr;Tin« k-jj ] d*nou to th* Hawerj HcsjvU.il. » i Two darcghtca's f" Mr j}<-.i-.:t <.>«r*vs { wer« drowned ;n »!«• W.'«s:r'iS-.t ?«vj »*»'!•- j afternoon. .A asmctr n* tttH*s i '»a i»«i'« ; hntjiir.ir. l>i!«*k 0;;: i». -i-cl 15 T«-''i«. ! 2<»t: irto :.«■« "-.<* i m«-T. i 15 ve.irs. wen-, to Jier »».*■»•.». r<i'h o'<» t"3 *s»3t that, hca lest taeir l:va<. A viuji;: ; v:i<» c"«tne op in u:z «.«.ctj« • ■o-i'M *-«■<: v-nim. I -ird uiiier help iinived U.« Vj I *-. "H'-p. h<yiv * *.i t:if younger S»l •-■' ,: * ''<*« ir'-tvc'reii.: j wku.ix<;tox. r i hi- ?", I Mr C. H. Fwld. t»ienly-{«mT yc<r« >.f < ■■»rc<.ivi-cWi« jwv-eiis-er or-. s.s. ' j CW;ni3i:o. fr»-m vr.is- mit-feU imm jthc- vessel 3 .-;*t Surdar nmrrini;. Il i* J supposed tlint }<t \r;>.s Umt tiv«il»«ml. He •.-.i> i:i ill-Iraki). | DUXKDIX. F«hra:.rr 2?. j At IJ:e icqnc.sT Jo.<J.-jy SoycliiHg the <]ftaj3i of William Sinclair McDonald, aged four j years, the evidence showed that *be de--1 ceased and a ciz-jdsrold brother were

tin owing mud into a water hole I*3) feel across, and ranging from 3 to 7 feet in depth, when deceased fell in. Hi* brother ran home and told bin mother, but lifa **s extinct when the body w»tr recovered. The water hole is in an, open paddock and unprotected. The jury returned ;i verdict of accidental death, adding a rider that, stepis should 1» 1 alien at <;nce to have k:<li a d.i.:.ge;ous hole filled in.

IXVEKCATUJILL. FebiuajT 27,

Wi.-rd has bu'.-j U'CLived bete that Mr Thomas Kennedy. ,-i wdbkr/.wn settler of was Li - :..-; :;i Wind.-oj-. near Oainaru. where he was holjday-makit.-g, by the accidental dii-.ehar<;e of a gun. There are no dcV.dV of lh<- accidenl. Mr Kennedy leaves ;.i -.vj i',w .-i:i.l :> Izmih:. J The "Oamaru 70ail" give* ti.e folloving account of the aetideni : h iippe.ms that several boys -acre shooting at a. iainet on Sunday aftti;->oo;i when a man Ramed Kennedy came up and anted to foo allowed a shot.. Tf.e next thing the bovs knew there was nn explosion near them. ■and I,'iey n ;j -«- Kennedy bud been shot through ihe right- temple. Xo <;ne *uw the oceumncc, btil it it- surmised that, the unfortunate man had reloaded Ihe rifle and ac-cidentaly let jt <t g w .} H!:i Q ic muzr^e ,..,micd ro-nard/ fcv bead. Kennedv «3t::i, without a word, in about a minute and a half. Two of the boy* at once node «o Ng:,j,wa i vr ij, c ,\-,rior a.nd to inform iLejuOne Tl ; , ,-,,,.,,, ;] Av; „ 59- TUO , "1 age. an. kav.-* a „.j le .„ )d at J -'»ata. South :.,:d. At ~ i fl( p e ~i a . redact of accidental cut- was icjumed.]