ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

YOUNG MAN MISSING STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE IN CHRISTCHUIICH. CBj Taleirraph.-Press Abolition.) Christchurch, February G. Considerable- consternation has been occasioned in business, cricket, and rowing circles ia Christchurch by a runioa.ithat a well-known ex-criokctev, who is tho representative in Dunedin of a big Christchurch firm, has disappeared,' leaving no trace, or practically none, of whore he has goiw or what has happened to him. Last Wednesday the young man booked a return passage from Dunedin to Lyttelton, and telegraphed to his friends in Christchurch that ho was paying a visit to this city. There seems little doubt that he boarded tho Maungarmi at Dunedin, for his handbag, which comprised all his baggage, has been found on tho steamer, ana tho jHirsor has in his possession tho rcttim half of the missing man's stoanvdr ticket. He did- not, apparently, arrive in. Christchurch, and did not go on by steamer to Sydney. What has Happened to the young man is at present a complete mystery. There is Jio suggestion ' that business affairs were worrying him, Ho was to have been married at Dunedin next wcok. As far as is known by the Union S.S. Company's officers the young man left the steamer at Lytteltoii. The missing man is Jlr. W. J. Hcbcleu, representative iu Ptmcdin of Messrs, Mason, Struthere and' Co,, Ltd., .of Christchurch. YOUNG CYCLIST THROWN. <Bv Teleeranh.—Preßs Association.! Ghrtstchurch, February 6, An unusual accident occurred this morning: Fred. Woodward, aged fifteen, years, was cycling when his trousers caught in the bicycle chain, and he was thrown, his leg being fractured. MAN FOUND INJURED. , A man named George. Taylor, a labourer, _ fifty years of age, was found on the Seatoun Road yesterday suffering from a gun-shot wound in tho side. Ho was admitted to' the Public Hospital shortly after 3 o'elock, Taylor resides at 27 Queen Street. , . SEAMAN HURT. A seaman on the Watiine was adnutted to. the Public Hospital last night, he having received a severe shaking through a sling of mails falling on him.