ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2364, 21 January 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

j. ~ 0 d 1. MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT. » A man named Albert Tilbury, a gar- '- dener at Trentham, was returning from it the Trentham races yesterday in a » n motor-car, when he collided with «n- -- other motor-car. Tilbury was thrown n on to the road and had hi 6 right thigh :e broken. He was removed to the Hosi, pital, and was reported from that ini- stitution last evening to be a little is easier in condition than when he was •, admitted. Tilbury is a married man e iind is 38 years of age. (r ' li HOSPITAL REPORTS. 6 F. C. Hyde, the railway fireman who was injured on Monday, was reported. , from tho Hospital last night to be still f in a semi-conscious condition, and in about the same state as when he reached the Hospital. £ Mr. Harding, chief 'officer of the 3 Mineric, who was admitted to the Hos- ® pital suffering from an injury to his knee, was reported last night to bo f doing very well. I BOY DROWNED. : (By Telegraph.—Press Association' '•• Auokland, January 20. V Roy Preston, whose parents reside in ' tho Dominion Road, was drowned at Point Chevalier through tho capsizing " of a. boat. ' DROWNED IN CAROLINE BAY. j- Tlmaru, January 20. r The first fatality at Cardline Bay - bathing eandß occurred 1 this afternoon. - Two brothers, aged 8 and 6. named i Bartley, whose father is employed at - Islington, were bathing with a numbei of others off the rubble mole, when they wore observed to be floating with I their heads under water too long. The | other hoys fetched them out', and medii cal aid was procured. The elder was past recovery, but the younger was , Drought round after an hour's work. ; They were not beyond their depth, and ■ it is stated that the two boys were going to see which could held their heads ) under water longest. i ■ > ! ■ •