ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1291, 21 November 1911, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MR. WESLEY SPKAGG INJURED. Il3y Telegraph.—Press Association.i Auckland, November 20. Mr. Wesley Spragg, president of th# New Zealand Alliance, was thrown from a buggy, which capsized owing to Iho horse bolting. The occupant was rendered unconscious, and was rather severely injured, 110 is progressing us satisfactorily as can be expected, but his coudition is oausing his friends anxiety, DROWNED AT LAKE FERRY. Carterton, November 20. A drowning accident .occurred at til# Lake. Ferry yesterday. l'our men—George Dunning, Silas Davis, John Robinson, and Morley Saxton—were, crossing tho lake at tho forry when the boat capsized. All wwo precipitated into tlio water, Saxton swam ashore and succeeded in assisting two of his companions to land, but Dunning was washed out to sea. The body Was found this morning on tho Wliangamoana. beach. Deceased was aged nbout thirty years, and lmd been employed by Mr. Goorgo liume, of Tauana, Ijower Valley, SUDDEN DEATH. Carterton, November 20. A woman named Horn died suddenly a.t Greytown yesterday. A clot of blood lodging in the heart wa.s the ipimcdiala cause. Deceased had been employed at Mr. J. Jury's, Fonata.bi. BOY'S DEATH BY DROWNING. Whangaroi, Novombor '0. Tho police have received information (lint a six-year-old boy, Keith Osborne, was drowned at Ivaimainaku, thirty niilot north of Whangarei, last night. FATAL SEIZURE AT CLUIi. Duncdin, November ?ii. Mr. ,T. Strang, M.A., president I 'V Draughts Club, while playing a <■ a the club rooms on Saturday ev,:.it' ;m taken suddenly ill and expire'! --In.:t "y aftcr admission to Die liosp'tai. '!• x.v. til yeai-s of ago. and had been -n-.-.-n i" 1 coaching university students. 11-- mm a_ widow and two sore? residen, in t ! « North Island.