ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH;V - .. ■ '.'' .'.'■',i.(By' Telegraph-Pross Afisoci&UonJ . ■ ' . ": :■ ';■■' : Hokitika, November 11, ■A verdict'of accidental death /was returned in , Connection with the fatality on the Boss Goldfields claim, whereby a man named.Steadmanias killed. -'']'.-[. .:..'- ■,■.>.'•■.■•■:■.■) : .Zr>- ; ■■: A BICYCUi ACCIDENT." . y. ':■, : A little girl named Ltioy Henderson (whose jarents reside in EUice Avenue), a Clyde; Quay Sohool girl, was run over-and injured by a bicycle yesterday afternoon in Roxburgh Street. It is stated that she was running down Fallow field Avenue, and, without looking to see if anything was,coming, continued'.hot scamper 4cro6S Roxburgh Street, at which moment a lioy named George Btlderbeck cycled down the street at a good rate .of speed.' The little girl hesitated a tittle, and the boy swerved to clear Her, and would■ probably have done soj hadshe not continued to run 1 right across. As a resnlfc of tho collision, the rider was thrown on the road. The littl'o girt was picked up in a stunned condition, and taken to a near-by shop; where she was attended to. by Dr. Young. She sustained a severe cut in the leg, some minor cuts aboot the hoad,' and was considerably brnised and suffered a Rood deal from shock. The boy was uninjured. v •' CAUGHT ByU FISHHOOK. : , .•A'man named Samttol I4nlar (stated to have n'al&d down from Auckland) whs sitting on the. Potono Wharf yostorday, watching some fishermen, when a man threw out his lino, and thfl hook oanght Pinlay's hniid, Vith rathei siivere wsulte. Ho was removed to the hos. pitttl nt i.30 p.m., and' the .hook was . extractcd.' ;.. / .., .~, .'.■.:■•.'■ ■ : '-,- : ■■■':■