ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 12743, 17 August 1907, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. "Word was received in FTtha-ni last night (ea.yo a P.A. telegram) that a Maori had attempted to commit suicide at Okinawa by cheating himself. The ambulance went wit and took him to the H.awera Hospital, whore it is expected he will recover. RAILWAY HAND INJURED. 'Bus morning an accident happened to a man nanu d i nomas White, employed by .the Railway Department. He and another ■nero engaged unloading a truck containing a largo case and two slabs of marble. The truck was bumped by a shunting online causing one of the slabs to fail aSross While's legs, breaking both. His companion narrowly escaped.—P.A. wire from Oamaiu. A DRAY ACCIDENT. Ivhat appears to ha.vo been a boyish frolic at Wylie's Crossing on tho 14th rea|■_*. 1 -g 1 m an accident to a (schoolboy named William Harper, of McsMel. ’William Ogiivie ftwMvo). of Saddle Hill, L' charge, of boree ami dray. He delivered of r-o:il to [i m.idunt ;it V/vHc’r C-rmsing and was returning along’ the Rieco.rton road, weh.n three boys get into the dray. One of tbs three took chawc of the reins and wbinped up the horse causing the animal to go off at a trot’ The fastening i.n the front of the vehicle had not been attended to, and the drav tinned up. Tho bov Harper, who wVm

j seated at _ the back of tho dray, fell oat i and sustained a compound fracture of tho j thigh. Ho was medically attended, and j has since boon admitted to tho Dunedin : Hospital Tho other boys were l/cwis ; Walton (twelve), Alexander M'Keen • (eleven), and Alexander Wylie (thirteen). I *