A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 303, 25 May 1889, Page 2

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

A FATAL ACCIDENT. ■ i.. 1 ® .mJ swainbon kill J aJtolo||4. acmMRHi Coast on Thursday. As Mrs Swainson was leaving Tologa Bay on horseback the saddle slipped round and the rider was thrown with great force on the ground. The horse then jumped on the woman who was so severely injured that she could not gat out of the way tarim*' Artlra injuries she ratairiMdt 'WSrs xepy.?.serious telephoned for, and on arriving he held out littWhope* KmrUaSdvety. MKrsafiHng' ' iritensa pain Mr* at 3 p’ciock yesterday morning. Mr Swainson is nbw cn h |» RM riiA'.i )A little Maori bay Tokoqiard was last week knocked insensible through a kick from (a horse. The boy WM.alter.aome hosass ap* oil going up 4o one it kicked (rat, catching him under the chin. The accident happened about noon on Monday and.the boy did not regain consciouness till midnight, when it is supposed th* cold brought him to-,: and tha lad had then to crawl ori his hands and knees to a whare some three miles, before he could g.t attended to.

i Three accident cases were received into tbe Auckland Hospital on Monday afternoon. A bhtcher boy nqtnad . WjUiane. Dickson, was standing by wb«d ! s*me boy* l were‘fighting, fight, received a blow on the Jaw that broke if in two places. , IA-tnrin named Edward Bowlands was tramping the Heleneville district for work.'atifi When' going alohg a bush road fell down, and having a heavy ewag on his back, could not save' himself; and he hid i thestnaU bone of his right leg broken,' The’ man came from Lyttelton. A little boy named Wm. Jonas was treated for A 1 broken dollar bone that h* had got *om»how or i Jim Jordan, th* well-known footbMlM, met ' with ipwalibr accident whilst playing in i football match dt th* Thame* rid Saturday l|>st. He was running with the ball, and in attempting w tend off an opponent, strtidk his right hind “with such force Bgaihst the litter as to break it across the back. It is rirdbablsthat he will hav*-to wear spHnte for about six weekr, huff' wilt bs ’ißMpaoitated from the game for the remainder of the ieastfff. 1