ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13664, 5 August 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

• • - ' Per■•Press Association. GISBORNE, August 4. Frank Kingston, who was s>evei.ely., injured'while bush-felling in the, Motu dis t-ncb, di&i from the effects of his injuries. The'body is b«mg brought; to Motu towhere the inquest will, be held. ' ' , HASTINGS, August 4 The body found yesterday near the swamp at Longlands .proved to r .be that of a. Maori; who has been: missing since 1 Jitnfe-;l7th. At the inquest the jury returned a, verdict, of found-; drowned. . JS T APIKBj-.August 4. fc>quire Wilson, a hairdresser, of Enimerson, -Street), lias .been >-ifiissing; since •isaturday.• Ho awiS seen., on the Awatoto road-, on • that i. day..'.shaving left his | home in. the moinilig. . PALMERSTON NORTH, August 4. • A boy. employed in Keeling and. Mundys printing office ,met with, an-extra-ordinary accident to-day.-. A ring upon his-finger caught- 'on one. of the hooks attached to the -belting.' His; hand .was 1 badly damaged,and-: on • being taken ' to the j hospital ■" one finger had to be em-put-ated- 1 Wilson; \ from' .Ohakune," attempted to cut "his throat - m a.: paddock on the Eoxjton." line 'to-day. --The knife broke before operation was satisfactorily andWilson walked'into town to a doctor. DUNEDIN, August 4 A motors.car, containing- five people, was coiping from Palmers-tap ; yesterday aftelrnoon to town, ;• when at the Kilnvog Hotel, the wheel skidded, the tyre, exploded; and-, the: .car overturned. Mrs Ain.ge; ;of...the Grand Hotel,i.iand -Mrs ,Millar, of. Oban • Hotel;; .were * piwied.\>underaeath the wheels for some time- and .Jutd; a- miraculous, escape. .-•., Both-sustained:' injuries, Mra Miliar having three ribs broken. i i DUNEDIN,,- Aligui-t 4. A report reached Lawrence to-day to the eftect thab an eldeilj . man, vhrte name .is unknown, d icd , suddenly i Ub Tua-peka-moutli whi]<s -digging, a.- giiaye. ;• •John: • Weir, a carpenter residing at Temuka, died. suddenly .^yesterday?■- •- from heart, failure..: ■ Deceased'i Svas being-at-tended by Dr. Wai'i en, and it is riot . thought, that, it .will-be? necessary -to hold an inquest • •-■in;-}.-: v.-