ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2921, 6 November 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MOTORING FATALITY. WELL-KNOWN LOCAL CITIZEN KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association.,palmerston N., November 4. A fatal motor accident occurred at tho end of Fitzroy Street last night. A two-seater car, drivon by Mr. William Forbes, travelling representative of tho National Mutual Insurance Co., and containing two employees of tlio Grand Hotel (where Mr. Forbes was staying), Mary and Kitty Sullivan, overran the road, and turned a somersault into tho bed of the Manawatu River. Mr. Forbes was killed instantly, and tho wero badly hurt, and wero taken*to the hospital. Mr. Forbes was a strangor to tho locality, and evidently did not know that the road terminated suddenly with a [ twenty-foot river bank. Tho car | shot over the bank, and pinned tho I driver underneath. Death must have been instantaneous.

The late Mr. William Forbes was well laiowil throughout the Wellington district, and particularly in the city itself. Ho was in tho municipal tramway service for three or four years, and resigned oil October 7, 190S, in order to contest the Wellington Suburbs seat as an Independent against Messrs. W. H. P. Barber, R. ■A. AVriglifc, Chapman, B. Hogg, J. M. Murrell, and J. Johnston. Sir. Forbes polled 451 votes, as against Mr. Barber's 2588. In his spccch after the result was known, Mr. Forbes announced his intention of remaining in politics, and predicted that one day .he would be at the top of the poll. Tie had been with the National Mutual for about two years, and was regarded as a very successful agent. Bus loss is a severe one to the company. Ho was a widower, thirty-nine years of age,, and leaves two children. lie has a brother a motorman in the ■ tramway service in Wellington.

FOUND DROWNED. Jiv Telegraph—Press Association. Nelson, November 4. Mary Kilpatrick, a single woman, aged about 54, was found drowned in tlie harbour this morning. She had been despondent for a few days. She came to Nelson from Greymoutli, where it is believed she had a brother. SUICIDE AT RAKAIA. Christchurch, November 5. Alexander Straohan, aged 47, a single • man, was found dead, hanging in his brother's woolshed near llakaia, yesterday. Deceased, who belonged to Otago, was the youngest son of the late Mr. Strachan, a well-known, farmer. He was in Ralcaia on a few days' holiday. YOUTH DROWNED IN EVANS BAY. A boating accident, in which a youth named Ularenco Dawson, of Penrose Avenue, Newtowu, wa6 drowned} occurred in Evans Bay at about 11 o'clock | yesterday morning. Dawson is 19 years of age, and with two boy friends of about 12 or 13 years, was boating in the bay. They had made ono or two trips to tho Miramar wharf, and it was on the return journey that the fatality occurred. The boat is one of the four-teen-foot class, with a centre-board, and it was tho slacking of tho mainsail which Dawson was endeavouring to pull taut that caused him to fall

overboard. He could not swim, and sank rapidly out of sight. Other boatmen who were nearby came to render assistance, but it was too late. There was no sign of deceased. . The police constable at Kilbimie was communicated with, and, with the assistance of several boatmen, trawling was started. Five or six hours later tho body was recovered and conveyed to tho morgue. A woman named Mrs. Cooper, residing in Owen Street, suffered a painful but not serious scalp wound by falling from a tram at Thorndon Station on ; Saturday evening. It is stated that 1 she was leaving the car while it was . in motion, and that she fell heavily. ! After being attended by Dr. Patten " she was well enough to be taken homo j by Kei- friends.