ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2361, 18 January 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

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.SHIP'S;OFFICER INJURED. While the cargo steamer Minerio was at Newcastle,- the chief officer, Mr. Harding, had the misfortune to bump his knee. Bo received medical attention, but decided to come on to Wellington by the vessel. When the-Minerib arrived in the stream here yesterday a' signal was made requesting-the services of a doctor. Dr. Pollen, Port Health (Officer, requisitioned a steamer and proceeded out to the Mineric. After examination, Mr. Harding was found to be suffering •from aoute septicaemia, and! he : was immediately conveyed ' ashore and sent to a hospital: From inquiries made,-it appears that Mr. Harding has suffered' much pain on the run across tho'Tasman Sea,- ; 'aild from;the-time-the vessel left" Newcastle"ha rest;- : ■■'■■■■"'. ;YOUNG WOMAN.,INJURED..- ;■ . Fanny Sinclair, a ! young wdmSn working'at Pinhosk's Hotel, 'Wellington, was admitted to the Public Hospital yesterday from outs, about her head and-face;: which are said to have been received while she was-working "at'the dinner lift.- 1 The patient was unconsolous fdi" some little time after the accl» dent}-but is no.V progressing favour-' ably. ; '' "•- '■"■ " "...'.:...' KNOCKED DOWN BY'A MOTORrCAS Clsborfie, January 17. 'A' serious motor-car accident occurred about 11 o'clock on Saturday night ft* Taruheru, a few chains beyond, the western boundary of the barough.. As the passengers ytbt& alighting from a bus a. motor-car, ; driven -by August ' Zenker; cam'o along and ran down Ruby Dennett, a girl of about 17 years of age. The unfortunate young lady was dragged some • distance under the car, which swerved into the fence. Medical aid was summoned, and the girl was re-> moved tff- a hospital. She is in a precarious conditions and it is feared that she has sustained serious internal injuries. '"_,'', ELDERLY MAORI DROWNED. " ClSbomß, January 16. 'A Maori named Henri Kopirl, aged, about 55 years, was drowned in the Waipaoa River, near Waerengaahika, about nine miles from Gisborne, whilst bathing this morning. The. police are dragging for the body. WOMAN AND CHILD DROWNED. ■ Blenheim, January i 6. 'K woman named Kesler and her young gon were drowned in the Wakamarjna River yesterday. There are no details. : KILLED.IN A.MINE.. GreymoUth, January 16. John Arthur Williams, aged 86 years, a single nian and a native df Glamorgan*' shiro, was killed in the Blackball mine .as'the result of a. misspent dynamite shot.;. MAORI HANGS, HIMSELF. Glsborne, January 16. Hadra Tawiri, an elderly Maori, hang•Bd himself at Muriwai.