ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2984, 23 January 1917, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

« —. Miss Annie Mackie, who is a stranger to Wellington, was knocked down by a motor vehicle on Lambton, Quay yesterday, and sustained a broken right leg. Miss Mackio was boarding a tram, and it is supposed she changed her mind, for she stepped backward ou to the street, and was knocked down. Sergt. 'A'. Ritchie, of the Quartermaster's Stojes, Trentham, who, it is thought, fell from the Dominion Private Hotel oil Sunday, sustaining serious injury, was reported to be in a mero satisfactory condition last night. FATAL LORRY ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. • Dunedin, January 22. Mr. George Flett, of the firm of Muir and Flett, 'Roxburgh; died at Roxburgh to-day as tho result of a lorry accident. Deceased was a. married man, aged 35. DEATH FROM MENINGITIS. Napier, January 22. 'A. fatal case of 6pinal meningitis occurred to-day. The patient came from the Hastings district. Isolation has been enforced. RAILWAY CROSSING ACCIDENT. Foxton, January 22.. : 'A gig containing Mr. Robert' Green, his wife, and nephew was run into by a train when attempting to negotiate a. crossing on tho Foxton side of Motuiti flag station ou Saturday night. A motor-car and a motor-cycle passed Green at the time, and the headlight of tho engine was mistaken for tho car light. The horse was killed instantly; and the gig was overturned, throwing the occupants on the road clear of the line. All were more or less injured. A special train conveyed the sufferers to Palmorston Hospital. Their injuries arenot considered serious. A PAINFUL CASE. Auckland, January 22. At the inquest on the body of Peter Cornwall, a witness, stated that he saw deceased jump off thewharf. Other evidence showed that ho was" suffering from cancer of the tongue, and had been given a month to live. Ho left a letter saying that dying too slow, and ho thought to bring it on a little quicker. . ' SUICIDE IN'CHRISTCHURCH. Christchurch, January 22. William Samuel Harrison, aged 64 reaiding in Montreal Street, who was found a few days ago. by the police ivitt his throat cut, died in tho Hospital oi Saturday afternoon.