ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVIII, Issue 12362, 30 November 1904, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. GISBORNE, November 29. King's correct name i& August Volzke, ?.ige 22. He is the son of a farmer at Midhurt-t, T&ranaki. He and Schnell assumed other names, b©causo*3iaving a repii'tat'on for wood-chopping in /Taranaki -they hoped thus to hide their/identity and gci'j matches on with local bushnws*. SchneM explains that they tramped fifty lliiLes cattle hunting on Sunday, and being tirod out en their iretiirri they put i!ho gun .down loaded. ■ When :shif i> ing .eaiinpi yesterday, Volzke, forgetting the gun was loaded, handled it carelessly, wiith the rasuitt that he was shot. He died within & minute. Men working in the locality, in tirue bushmen fashion, carried the body out over an exceedingly rough country. ' GISBORNE, November 29. In the inquesb concerning the death of Voltke, the jury returned a verdict that he came by his death by an accidental ghct fired by himself.

FEILDING, Novombor 29

A member of tho family states that it3io death oi; Mr. W. Banks, of Kimbol•ton, ds due to the accidental discharge of a gun. and not! su'tcido. OITRISTCHURCH, Noviomber 29. A^bhiiar Kirn her, aged 21, and Sydney Lows, aged 30, were drowned in , the Lower Solwyn last '.night, while ; trout fishing, through an old punt, in which tlioy were oross-iaig; the river, sinking. Lowe sank immediately, but Kimber was heard ca.LVmg for help for a few moments. Before help cou'tl reach him, liowever, he 'had sunk. Whean the latt9i4'a body wa.s diisoovered, iti was found that he 'had kicked both of his heavy wading boots off in lite stta-uggles.