ACCIDENTS AND FATALI TIES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1856, 16 September 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALI TIES

WILLIS STREET ACCIDENT.

Mr. M. H. Norwood, tho American entertainer, who is at present staying at Wellington, was riding a motor-cyole along Willis Street and got botween a passing tram-car and a wagon, when a cyclist entered tho saino narrow path and a collision was inevitable. Tho impact was not very severe as both riders were going slowly <at tho time. Tho motor-cyclo was the most damaged, tho rider of tho bicycle escaping injury. COLLISION ON THE QUAY. Yesterday afternoon, . Mr. Barker, of Tinakori lioad, was riding on a motorcyclo along Lambton Quay, when ho collided with a motor-car at tho Dresden cornor, and fell heavily. He was picked up in an unconscious condition, and carried into tho shop of Mr. Orr, chemisty where ho was medically attended. Ho was afterwards taken'homo. FALL FROM SCAFFOLD. By falling from a scaffolding whilst at work in the construction of the wholesale warehouse in Dixon Street for Messrs, Fred. Cooper, Ltd., a labourer named Henry Wagner yesterday sustained a bad scalp wound, and such other bruises that ho was removed to tho Hospital. THE MOTOR AND THE DOG. * GOLFERS' ESCAPE. (By Toleerapll.—Press Association.) Wanganul, September 115. As' a motor-car containing Arthur Duncan, Arthur Gillies, Harold Thomson, and Gonvillo Saunders, well-known golfers, was proceeding to tho golf links tliis morning a front wheel of tho car side-slipped whon tho driver attempted to clear a. dog in the main street. Tho Bpokos of tho wheel broke, tljo tiro burst, and tho ear turned completely over. Duncan) Gillies and Saunders, who wero in tho back seat, wero thrown cloar of tho car, escaping with a few . bruises. The drivor_ of the car, a man named Carter, fell fairly on tho aido of his head insido of tho car and was picked up unconscious. Thomson also toll on the side of his head, with tho car on top of him. Both men wero carried into neighbouring shops and medical aid was sought. Ilio driver soon recovered consciousness, and Thomson also revived Tho latter has strained tho muscles of his arm. Apparently neither had hones broken, though the faces of both are much cut about and tho bodies bruised. Tho car was smashed considerably. . . . A BODY RECOVERED. ' Auckland, September 15. Tho body of S. W. P. Peddle, one of the occupants of tho launch which disappeared from Whangapoua, Coromajidel, somo weeks ago, was found at PuJigapunga Beach last night. THRESHING MILL FATALITY. Ounodln, September 15. At 1 Palmerston South on Saturday afternoon a son of James Challis, while endeavouring to climb a threshing mill boing drawn by a traction engine through the township, fell under a wheel and. sustained fatal injuries

Experiments between Toulon and Paris by scientists have, proved tho speed of Hertzian waves to be 205,W)0 kilometres a. second. Tfoo speed 'qf light is 233,000 kilometres a eeo'ond.