ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13650, 18 July 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

A LAUNCH FOUNDERS. SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. 3rasrf Association-By Teik>graph-Copyr:,ght Received 11.12 p.m., .lu.y lon. .MANILA, Juiy 17. A pleasure launch while journeying from Manila to Corregidor, foundered miring a typhoon. • Twenty-five out of 75 persons who were on board were drowned. Per I'ress Association. AUCKLAND, July 17. Constable Lauder, of Te Awnmutn, received word this afternoon that Frank Mason, of Messrs Mason Bros., runholders of Moungatatutari, ten miles beyond Kihihiki, had shot himself and his one-year-old daughter. Constable Lauder and -Dr-'Hen-derson'are proceeding to tho locality. WELLINGTON, July 17. A verdict' of accidental death was returned by the jury .which inquired into the death of Patrick Finlay, wharf labourer, 58 years of age, who was injured by some Max falling on him at the Queen's wharf. DUNEDIN, July 17. John McLean, who is employed in the Maintenance Department, had a leg broken on the MosgieL duplication works this morning by a fall of earth: , A peculiar accident, forfianntedy not of a serious' nature happened yesterday to a fanner from Waikakahi, who had been attending the sale at St. Andrews. While walking along the platform to board the express bound south, a. dog,.-taking fright at the on coming . engine, rushed badly, along the edge of the platform and in turning off collided violently with the farmer, landing him neatly on the ashphalt, well back from the incoming engine.