ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
i * . ™ [Peb Pkess Association.] s . AUCKLAJTD, Dec. 13. z : - ; - One of the Austrian settlers at Herekino (Tom Perdija) is reported missing. He had ■ itaTted to make a comfortable home for himtelf, and is supposed to have been drowned in fording Herekino Harbour on his way to the gum fields. .; Yesterday afternoon a man employed as :; 6aker on board the Waihora fell down one of the hatches, a distance of about 10ft. '; fife waa severely shaken, but his injuries '■'&-' fcf© supposed not to be serious. He was r \ taken on to Wellington in the steamer. I-; ' About five o'clock yesterday afternoon ; j» lumper named Stephen Lambert, a middle - *ged man, fell into the hold of the ship s Ihessalus while engaged in discharging £ He fell about 25ft, and sustained a : l fracture of the base of the skull, besides f.- his right wrist and several ribs. '■= lie was promptly sent, by means of a shunt- .. rag engine, to the casual ward, where Dr f IJpham did all that was possible for him..
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6668, 14 December 1899, Page 4
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