ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3037, 26 March 1917, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MOTOR-CyCMST 'KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' . Christchurch, March 25. ■ 'George Wonnacott, slaughterman, of St. 'Albans, a married man with two children, was riding a motor-cycle last .night, with James Griffin on the carnier, when he collided with a tramway pole in Bealey Avenue. He was instantaneously killed: Griffin was rendered unconscious, being severely injured 'about the head." . BALLOTED MAN COMMITS SUICIDE.. ' Masterton, March 25. Captain Martyn Roberts has received a wire from the Dannevirke police stating that a man named John Considine, for, whose arrest a warrant had been issued for failing to respond to the notice calling him up under the Military Service Act, had committed suicide by. cutting his throat. , .. ■ A FATAL UOSE OF BOILER . COMPOUND. . , By Telegraph.—Press Association. ,■■-.■ Auckland, March 25. Through inadvertently swallowing a quantity of boiler compound, Victor Oviberg, a-Swede, employed l at Messrs. Bartholomew's sawmill, Ngatira, died on Thursday. A youth named Richard Nixon, 17 years of age, was admitted to tho Hospital yesterday morning suffering from painful burns on both legs. It appears that curtains in -.the house where he resides in , Cambridge Terrace caught fire, and he suffered the hurts when trying to'extinguish the flames. His condition is not regarded as dangerous. •■