CITY ACCIDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1345, 24 January 1912, Page 4

CITY ACCIDENTS.

FATJi FROM' A BICYCLE. While cycling to his' home at 145 Brougham Street yesterday, Charles I ates, a clerk in the Tost and Telegraph Departnient, foil oil' his machine and sustained concussion of the brain. He managed to reach home partly conscious, but collapsed on the verandah of his house.. Mctlical aid was summoned, and the young' man was removed to the hospital, where he is now doing as well as can be expected. OTHER ACCIDENTS. A wharf , labourer, named Thomas Flora, ing, had his fool crushed at work yesterday, and is now an inmate of Ilic hospihil.' Fleming is a single man, 25 years of ape, and resides at Alpha Street. James Chapman was admitted to the Wellington Hospital yo-terday morning suffering from concussion of tho brain, as the result of :i fall on the Irani line. Ho is a married man, r>3 years of age, and resides at !I2 Ato Street. The elderly woman who was admitted to the hospital on Sunday suffering from t , elVeds u! lysol poisoning, wns reported by tho authorities lust night to have slightly improved. ACCIDENT ON S.S. KOONYA. Frederick Sanmlcrs, a wharf labourer, residing at 2(1 Martin Street, met with a painful accident whilst working in No. 2 hold of the Union Company's steamer Koonyn last evening. Some heavy iron girders, weighing 18cwt. each, were being loaded, and one of them was being lowered iiito the hold when suddenly it came down with a run, ami fell 1 inches, descending on Sauuders's foot. Dr. Henry was culled, and after rendering aid, directed that the patient should be removed to the hospital. II is understood, however, that the minjured man declined to go there, and was .xuli&Niucutly taken to his home.