ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 600, 31 August 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

, VAN- AND TRAMCAR COLLIDE. (D* ToleKrapb,—Presa AnoelailoQ.l, . ; ' Chrlstohuroh, August 30. About one o'clock'this afternoon a: van belonging to O. RitchiOr carrier, and a warn- . car returning to. the Square from Edgewaro Road collided at the intersection of C lies tor and Colombo Streets, with that a - young man named Birmingham was soverob. injtired, and the convoyanoo badly damaged. It appears that'. Ritchie,. Birmingham, - and . . .. - another young min wore driving.from Chosj ter Street ovor Colombo Street to Oxford... Tcrraco. Tho van had' just rcached tho 1111-0 > , when the car caught the, back of-it and cap- . j , sized' it. ■ Tho horse was knocked down, and ■, tlio occupants were thrown into tho roadway. , Birmingham, was severely cut about the head . ~ and body, and Ritchie also rooeivod slidit injuries. Birmingham ■ was oonvoyed to th# ( . hospital. , t , - A TRAGEDY. , 1 , Eltham, August 30. ' • J. Chapman, whb had just entered into partnorship witli Mr. Riddje, painter and paporhanger, was found this aftontoon in a t rodm at tho back of tho Bhop wiiih his throat , / cut. A razor was lying near the body. Life, , had boeil extinct for several hours. Ljttle was' known locally of deceased, whose wife \, resides at> Lovin. . . . .) ...i DROWNED: IN THE LITTLE GREY. RIVES.. , • Roofton, Angust 80. - . Tho body tof A. R. Baxter, a 1 Singer Sewine Machine agent, who was drowned m the i . Lfttle Grey River on July 27, was recovered . y °At r tho'inquest: a verdici/ of accidentally drowned was returned. The added a - rider pointing out .that: the Littlo Grey River was tlio oiily, river ou the main road from , Motupiko-to-Ross not bridged, and urged that tho work should bo dono, as the fom,. ■; nnn nf t.lin most danuerous on tho Coast.