ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2946, 5 December 1916, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

A FRACTURED LEG. George Wilson, -who lives at 140 Hansen Street, was admitted to tha

Hospital at 3.30 yesterday afternoon, suffering from a fractured leg. Wil-'' son is a storeman in Messrs. Johts Duthio and Co.'s warehouse. MILITARY OFFICER ACCIDENT•ALLY SHOT. By Telegraph—Press Association. • Christchurch, December 4. Lieut. George S. Lambie, adjutant oßj the 13th Regiment (North Canterbury, and Westland), and of tho permanent staff of tho Defence Force, was accidentally shot on Sunday near Culverden by James Wynyard Davison, withl ■whom he was rabbit shooting. Lieut. ' Lambie was a, son of Mr. G. Si for many years local manager for the; Union Company, and was aged 25 yoars. Ho could not got to the front, so took a position on the permanent staff. Previously ho had been a master at Christ's College. At tho inquest a verdiot was returned of accidentally killed, no blama being attachable to anyone. Evidence; showed that the party were seated in! a motor-car. Lieutenant J. W. Davison saw a rabbit, and said to Lambie, "Keep your head down a second whila I have a shot." Lambie ducked, but just as Davison pulled the trigger Lambie put his head up again, and received tho charge in the head. THREE CHILDREN DROWNED. By Telegraph-Press Association. Hamilton, December 4. While catching tadpoles at a water* hole at Waharoa, yesterday, Thelma and Adelaide Hill, aged ien and seven years respectivelv, fell into the water, A' brother named Louis, aged eight, tried to rescue them, but all three wens ; drowned. Tho mother, Mrs. Georga ' Hill, is a widow.