ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4817, 4 December 1893, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

fP-it Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Dec 2. An elderly man named Thomas Kates died on board the s.s. Takapuna on the passage from New Plymouth. He was a passenger from England to Wellington by the Aorangi. An inquest ia to be held. AUCKLAND, Dec 4. > James M'Quoy, farmer at Paikuku, has been found dead in a ditch near Kihikihi. PALMERSTON NOBTH, Dec 3. ' There are twelve patients at the hospital, six the result of accidents. A man named John Schroder had his right leg broken and the foot of the other leg crnßhed while bushfelling at Birmingham. A man named John Moire fell from the Bangitikei bridge this morning and had his collar-bone broken and several ribs fractured. He has a wife and family residing at Auckland. WELLINGTON, Dec 2.

Edward Monaghan, aged thirty-two, a ( farmer at Earori, died this morning from , the effect of injuries received through ' falling from his horte while returning home on election day. BLENHEIM, Dec. 4. Mr Howard Dodson, a well-known brewer, was drowned this morning while driving from Picton to Blenheim, at Mudford Flat. There was a great deal of flood water in the vifiinity, and it is Burmised that the deceased, who was alone, wbb jolted out of the trap, and was unable to reach the bank. Great regret is expressed at his untimely end, as he was universally respected. [Special to the "Star."] , / ■ TEMUKA, Dec 4. I News has been received at Temuka that a young man named D. M'Gimpaey has been killed at M'Donald's station, Orari, by the horses in a roller bolting. An inquest will be held on Tuesday.

A boy named Charles Hay ward had one of his elbows fractured on Saturday afternoon at Woolston through falling oS a pile of sticks in his father's garden. While Mr James Watson waß lifting Borne bales of wool on to a cart on Saturday, one of them Blipped and dislocated his left shoulder. He was attended to at the hospital. As the fifteen-year-old Bon of Mr J. M. Cambridge, Ashburton, was bird-nesting at his father's residence on Saturday afternoon, he fell from a tree, a distance of , about thirty feet. It was found that he i was badly bruised, but the full extent of , Wb injuries could not then be ascertained, i Members of the Permanent Artillery at

Lyttelton and several of the yachts of the Canterbury Yacht Club were engaged throughout Saturday afternoon in dragging for the body of Torpedoman M'Kenzie, who was drowned on Tuesday last. Several charges of guncotton were exploded with the hope of bringing the body to the surface, but so far all the efforts of the searchers have proved fruitless.