ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2908, 21 October 1916, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MOTOR-CAR CAPSIZED. FOUR' OCCUPANTS INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association. WoodvillD, October 20. Early this morning a car owued and driven by Mr. W. Hemp, of Kiimeroa, while returning from the Hastings Show with Messrs. Boyd, Johansen, and Nicoll (Pahiatua), and G. Peddles (Woodville) was overturned in M'Leau Street. The occupants were thrown out and injured. Four were taken to Pahiatua Hospital. After treatment two were able to leave. Messrs. Kemp's and ' Nicoll's injuries were more serious; the former was -unconscious. Mr. Johansen had a broken arm and a number of cuts. Mr. Boyd was bruised and cut about. The car was badly damaged.

SUDDEN DEATH. Hokitika, October 20. Mr. John M'Millan, jobbing foreman on the "West Coast Times," was found dead in his residence this morning. When last seen ho was in his usual health. His wife and two children wero away on a holiday. Deceased, whose age was 46, was a wellknown forward of the Hokitika Football Club in the nineties, and was a prominent member of the Kilwinning Lodge.

SOLDIER FOUND DROWNED. The, body of a man named Thomas Fairlie, a private in D Company, Twenty-first Reinforcements, was found in the harbour, near the Queen's Wharf, about 6 o'clock yesterday morning. Fairlie had been granted a pass available from '5 p.m. to midnight on October 6, but he failed to' return to camp, land was. posted, missing.. Tho deceased was a labourer, forty-one years' of age, single, and belonged to Caversham, Dunedin. An. inquest will be held on Tuesday, at 2.30, p.m.