ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 80, 28 December 1917, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ANOTHER MOTORINC FATALITY. •'• FATAL CAPSIZE! ' By. Telegraph—Press Association. , I nveroargill, December 27. A motor-car with eight passengers, driven by Ronald Gerard, capsized between Lumsden and Tβ Anau on Wednesday afternoon. The majority escaped with slight injuries, but William !A. Hill, aged twenty-five, employed :in 'the South British' Insuranco Office in Dunodin, was killed. He was on holiday, and intended; visiting, Milford Sound. ' • ; FAULTY CAB. CAUSES A TRAGEDY. Cambridge, December 27. An inquest was held last night on the boy Landor Willis, who died as the result of the motor accident on Chrjstjnas Day at Tauwliare. The jury 'decided that it.was a pur.e accident, duo in the faiilEy* stuto of the car, and tl'at no blame was attachable to anybody. DETERMINED SUICIDE.' Blenheim, December 27. John Kin?, aged forty, a miner on Enchanted Creek, committed suicide on Christmas Day. His head, was blown off by a shot-gun. .It is Feftsved.he has a brother in Christchurch. GUM.-DIGGER DROWNED. s . "Auckland, December 27. William Thomas,: a widower, and a Bum-dig° , er by occupation, fell from the wharf into the harbour. Ho was rescued after three minutes' immersion, but life was.extinct. ACCIDENT IN A CIRCUS. During the performance at Barton's Jircus yesterday afternoon Marguerite, the lady rider, met with a slight accident. As the horse was cantering round the ring, the stirrup-strap broke, and the rider was thrown ..to _ the ground, sustaining jijevere shaking. A lad named Eric Boyes, residing at Otaki, was brought to the Wellington Hospital yesterday suffering from a gunshot wound in the head, His condition was stated last night not to be serious. . .