ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13833, 19 February 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Per Press ] Association. . . . WAIHI, Feb. 18. miner named Joseph, Hearne succumbed this morning to injuries received yesterday by a fall of 70 feet down, a pass in the Waihi mine. His wife and family are now on their way from Australia, intending to join him'here. WANGANUI, Feb. 18. Thomas Cooper,_/19 years ': of age, whose parents reside at Haveloek, was drowned in. the river this morning while bathing. While swimming near a groyne he got out into the current, which was very strong, and was heard to cry out "I'm done, I'm done" and then sank. The other bathers dived, but were .unsuccessful'in finding tho body. Tho deceased, was employed in the Lands Department and had just received word that he had passed the Senior Civil Service examination. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 18. At Lyttelton to-day two railway wharf labourers, John Shepherd, of Opawa, and William Coglo Were working in a railway truck alongside , tho steamer Cornwall, which was loading scrap iron arid old rails. A sling of iron while heing'hoisted fouled some other iron, with the result that Shepherd and Coyle were knocked out of the truck and fell into the water between the steamer and the wharf. Coyle escaped with nothing worse than a ducking, but Shepherd was not so fortunate as his head struck/ the, edge of the wharf. He was assisted to the casualty ward, where luV injury which consisted of a lacerated scalp wound was attended to. His injury was' not very serious, as he was able to go to his home.

GORE, Feb. 18. A sudden death. occurred at Pukorau yesterday, when Charles O'Hagan expired, presumably'from heart disease, while transacting business in n. carpenter's shop.' He was an old identity of the district, and a. settler for thirty years. No inquest is necessary.

A child, G years of age. a daughter of Mr and Mrs Isaac Smith, of Temuka, fell <toui a wood heap «n Wednesday, and broke her leg. The sufferer was attended to by Dr Hayes.