ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

"WHILE RETURNING TO CAMP.* (By TclcKraDh. —Press Association.* Stratford, February 28. A man named William Young, about sixty years of age, who was employed in a Government gravel pit, fell from the Skinner Koad railway, bridge while returning to camp on Saturday night and broke his neck. Deceased was ~» widower, with one young boy. FATAL CYCLING COLLISION^, Feilding, February 28. Mr W A. Sandilands, one' of the oldest solicitors here, an ex-Mayor of Feild™, and a member'of several local institutions, while cycling on Saturday night,in Manchester Street collided with, anothel cyclist. He w picked up unconscious and died at seven o'clock to-night without recovering consciousness. PELL DEAD OFF : A BICTCLE. : Hamilton, February 28* Mr. J. Vf. Henderson, aged sixty-nine, secretary'of-the Waikato Bacon Factory, and for a number of years manager ol various branches of the Bank of. Nefl Zealaud,' fell dead off his bicyjSlo on I'rankton Eoad on Saturday. Heart disease was the cause of death. ■■■"■■' MOTOR VERSUS TRAIN./ '; Wannanui, February 28. As a resnlt of a collision between tho train and a motor car to-night Dr. T?m- r ritt received nasty external 1 injuries to his head and a severe 1 shaking. His boo and a young lady were also in the- car. The boy escaped, but Miss Linemar r* iCeivcd scalp wounds and was taken to tie. hospital. Dr. Porritt was Mmoted to. Ids' own lioma. '."■■■ '.