ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 925, 19 September 1910, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MOTOR-CAR.PUT OUT OF ACTION. . Ati 8.5 p.m. 'on Saturday. a motor-car, belonging to Mr. Pinnock, anddi-ivep. by Frank ,'Brower,.' collided with ,a,-,.tram-pole at.the corner of Customhouse. Quay and Ballanoe Street... The. report, of the.driver states that it .was rainiiig and blowing, very hard at .the time, and-'the car' was : about, to :> turn into . Ballance Street, when, the: wheels skidded; on•the' tram .lilies,' and the.car; crashed into.' the post. ..Fortunately*; the driver escaped with a few-slight, cuts, but .the car was considerably, d(iinaged.% The' plate-glass shield was. smashed to atotu6,, and the ironwork of the car and tho cylinders was twisted and'broken. When tho car was towed away from the spot about' midnight .it was nothing more .than a remnant, -most, forlorn, of its former self., ;•'. .■ . .....; '.'■". >-. ! ■ ;, >, .;:v ;' '.;'.' SUICIDE ATPORIRUA,:' . Yesterday... the .police received ..'word from Porirua to the /effect that' a man nained Adam M'Morran had; shot, himself dead. M'Morran has for some time been 1 the driver of' the coach' between Porirua'and Titahi Bay,, and .resided'at Pprinia.. He was at one timo ; a well'known jockey, arid he held a license in recent years.:,'. As far , tack as .1888 he. won the Napier Cup on St. ■ Clair; the Hawke's Bay Cup on Crnchfield; the Great Autumn Handicap^on Ravenswing; the Diinedin, Birtlidiiy Handicap on St. Clair, as well as many other races. In dater years/he was a well-known hurdle rider. • : ..." .''.: Patrick' M'Keegan, aged 70, single, a fisherman' residing at':the old pilot,'station, .Lyall Bay, was, handling a; tbat yesterday .morning, wlien.it accidentally fell on, his. left .',ankle, breaking it. M'Keegan was later removed to the Hospital. ;■'■'■'■ ■•■.''• DEATH FROM A KICK. (By TileirraDb—Press Association.. '-.; Gisborne, September 17. Mr. A. P. Durrant, clerk to the Waiapu County Council, .was kicked in' the stomach a,few ,days ago whilst branding a calf; ; Internal. complications ensued; from which he diedS