ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

• ; BOYS FALL OVER A CUFF. , (By Meeraph—Press Association.! Christchurch,,' December 29. Two toys , fell over a cliff at Monk's Bay, Sumner,. this'morning, and are reported to be seriously injured. There was delay intending out the ambulance, and : ; at presnnt jio . particulars of .the. accident are available here.; ; - . Later. . The victims, of the cliff accident were itwo boys! named Kawlins, one' six: and .the other .nine years of age. .The younger brother slipped on the hillside and the elder tried'to catch him. Both fell forty or fifty .feet, ./.The .younger . boy appears to be: severely, injured, but tho older .'escaped with" a scalp, wound, and scratches. WAkGANUI ' DROWNING FATALITY., Waiiganui, .December 29." Dragging for- tho body of-ithe young mfln, Arthur Littlcjohn, drowned.' near . .'Upokoiigaro on Tuesday- has,.' so far, beea resultless. It is thought' that',the body. ;has been'carried down-stream by tho current,; and tho" search lyis for the present, therefore,'"been abandoned. ' .. WHAT BEFELL AT THE PICNIC. Timaru, December 29. ' At tho inquest on Michael ■Clifford,"' who ,tame to Timaru on 'December.S with a ; iparty.of.picnickers, from : Ashburton and fell over an .. embankment 26ft. high at 'the end of North Street, the medical testimony, showed that deceased sustained a broken' jciw,; four- broken "ribs, a broken collarbone, "two scalp wounds, and a punctured lung,. and death was ;due to septic pneumonia. 'The accident is supposed to have occurred aboutjll p.m., when Clifford ■ was not sober. ; The coroner returned a vordict. in accordance, with tho . medical testimony. • ' . ' DEATH AT WOODVILLE. ~ Woodville, December 29. • A man named Clemisha, foreigner, and stranger to' the- .town, . was discovered ■lying .veryt,ill in- ..Qrmond-Street,yester-, i dajr afternoon., /He . was'', taken'; to- tho police station, . and received [immediate .inedical, a.tfendancej'. but; he died,an- hour ■later.-'-. 1 •,- ■ ■•■