ACCIDENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14275, 16 August 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

POISONOUS FOOD Press As«ici;ition-Hy Telegraph-Copyright LONDON" August "14. Eight of the persons poisoned at Kingston-on-Thames, are seriously ill. Their illness is attributed to fish fried in bad oil.

PARACHUTIST'S DEATH. NEW YORK, August 14. Benjamin Piinc.e, at Ashbury Park, while dropping five thousand feet, was jerked from his parachute and killed.

KILLED BY A BELT. Per Press Association. WAIHI, August 15. A married man named Geo. Henesy, employed at the Waihi Company's battery. Waikino, was fa.tally mimed la-t night. While adjusting the belting he was caught in it and whirled round. He succumbed to his injuries this morning.

FALL OFF A WHARF. DAROAYIT/UE. Aug. 15. An meuest was held to-dav on the ibody of Fred. Whit,■hou-e. Lite cook Jof the schooner Isabella Defraine. The ! evidence showed that he was partially intoxicated on the < veiling of August 9. and left his vessel to get more beer. ■ T-le Wa- refused at a hotel, and never again seen alive. It is assumed that he fell off the uharf. A verdict of accidentally drowned. ! KILLED WHILE BUSHFELLING. j NEW PLYMOUTH. Aug. 15. i Jas. Ayrton. aged sixteen, died in the local hospital as the result of injuries sustained a few days ago while assisting his father in bushfelling at ■ Wa.itanga. ! SHOT IN THE LEG. I | PALMERSTOX N\, Aug. 15. 1 Chas. Bryant was shot in the leg yes- ' terday while out rabbit shooting with i his cousin, whose gun accidentally exploded. The shots were surgically removed, and the pa'tient is progressing favourably. j LUCKY ESCAPE. j A halfcaste named A. George fell off a train on Saturday night while passing from one carriage to another. He was picked up subsequently by the men on ; the railway tricycle, apparently uninsured. SHOCKING DEATH. WELLINGTON. Aug. 15. A fatal accident occurred at the ' Gear Company's Works. Petone. this morning. Joseph Rhoddis. an elderly : man. married, was opening up one of -the digesters, and neglected "to take the precaution to see that the steam and gas had escaped, with the result that he was blown 30ft high, ami then fell to the floor head foremost, lie was killed instanly. Some of his clothing . was found on a rafter, against which j lie. had been hurled with terrific force.

A FRACTURED SKULL. _ DUXfiDIX, August 15. Stephen Nolan, employed by Mr F. Movnihaii, farmer of Middlemareb. was badly injured to-day. He was working a team of horses in a drill, and while he was in front of the drill the. horses bolted. The drill was pulled over him. and he sustained a fractured skull. He was unconscious at a late hour to-night.

FOUN DDEAD. An old ago pensioner named AVm. Hayes was on Sunday found dead in Champions road, off Timam road. The body was removed . to the Waimate morgue and an inquest will lie held hy the Coroner (Mr T. Hutchison) today.

• | A FATAL FIRE. Mr, - I iip s.s. Ripple, which" arrived at , Lyttelton from the Chatliams on Saturj day brought news of the death of Mr "Alex. Shand, one of the oldest white ! ( residents of the Chatliams. Though' I nearly 70 years of age he lived bv himself, receiving attention from Lis partner's family every dav. He Was crippled by rheumatism but Could get about with two sticks. On the night of July 28th he was seen in the evening, but during the night, the house took fire and was burned, and next morning Mr Shand was lving dead where his bedroom window' had beon, and as Lis sticks were lving outside |he evidently tiled to eseane through ithe window but had been" overcome ,Mr Shand was a s-ood Mr- n schHar and had spent much time in working iim a history of the MorieWs. and nn" • fortunately all his records were deeitrojed in the &t%.