ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1017, 5 January 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

LITTLE GIRL RECOVERING. , {By TelcEraph.-Rpecial Correspondent.) Palmerslon, January 4. Tho little girl — Thompson, who . met with such a severe wound.from a revolver bullet at Sandon on Saturday, is progressing well at the Palmerston Hospital. FATAL SEIZURE AT PICNIC.' (By Telegraph —Press Association.) Auckland, January 4. Charlotte Stewart, one of a picnic party, had an apoplectic seizure on tho Coromandel beach. She was removed to tho hospital, where she expired. THE WOMAN WHO WAS LOST. * . Auckland, January 4. ' Mrs. Spragg, who was found in an exhausted condition after having been throe days lost' in : the Wiatalterei bush, died this morning of pneumonia. SLING GIVES WAY IN HOLD. Gisborne, January 4. A wharf labourer named Charles Polsen, aged 43, was killed this morning whilst working in the hold of a lighter. A sling containing 7c\vt. of salt fell on him, alul death was instantanefius.'

TRAAI AND CART COLLIDE. About midday yesterday a collision, fortunately not attended with serious result, occurred in Lambfon Quay between a tramcar and a butcher's cart. The cart, which belonged to Messrs. Barber and Co., was drawn up outside the Commercial Hotel, clear of tho tramline. The driver, George White, liad just taken his seat, and was picking up the reins, when the horse swerved, and was struck by a. palace car bound for Thorndon. The cart was knocked over on its sido, but the driver and the horse escaped iijjury. That the accident was not more serious was ,due to the fact that the motorman on the tramcat applied the brakes with promptitude.