ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1010, 28 December 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

EN EOUTE TO GOLF LINKS. A SUDDEN FATALITY. '; ' (By. Tekgraph-Press■•Association.) .', x.' ' ~','■ :'' , ' :Di "'edih,<;Deicenibeir-''2r-A Mr.- Alfred, Millar Hbgg,'-managinK'dt rector of Hogg -Limited,'timber■:-,mer-chants,- died-.yesterday, afternoou under sad circumstances. He,was proceeding to Balmacewan golf links, accomnanied by a friend, when his cbmpanibu missed him; On turning round ho found -Mr. Hogg had fallen to the foot of-a'steep incline leading to tho golf houso.V: Death was due to heart disease. Deceased was aged forty, and leaves a widow. ■' "'. TEAP~AOTDENT. ■ _■' Palmerston N., December 27. -. following -upon a-sensational runaway on Christmas Eve, two ladies-Mesdamoa rhompson and Mallet—were thrown from a,trap. Mrs. Thompson received injuries necessitating surgical' attendance, and Mrs. Mallet had her chest injured. ' : ..-: CYCLIST HITS A TBAIN. : ; V i- ~ .V Ashbl "' t on. December 27. A local, builder- named Geofgo Smith was ndiug.ii motor. cycle, : when- ho col-' Au- i)\ Ml , nl i es n ld - ex P"ss; train from Ghristchurch for, Timaru, which had just left AsKburton, and was> about a quarter .ot.a milo below tho station. Ho sustained eovere injuries,iincluding broken rib's,-se-vere cuts on the temple and back of the : head, and abrasions all over the body. He is progressing favourably. WOMAN FOUND DEOWNED. in. i , ,' , Auck! <>nd, December 27. rho body of Alice Heaps, wife of Ernest Heaps, was found iri the harbour this morning. She had been melancholy lately, and threatened to do away with herself. Sho went to bed as usuaLlast night,* , but had disappeared by the morning. Deceased was at one time an inmate of a mental hospital.' ' ■.; A LITTLE HOY DHOWNED. . Invercarflill, December 27. A boy named John , Fiiinerty, seven years of_ ago, whoso father is employed at the Railway Workshops , , was playing with- his sister and.two othec small girls near tho jetty this morning. Ho "attempted to walk over to an .adjoining tramway bridge, but fell into the estuary One. of the children, Flora Street, mado a , plucky attempt at' rescue, and waded into-the stream as far as , sho could,, but* was unable to reach tho boy, who was drowned." The tody was recovered by Constable Kerse about 2pm