ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 89, 8 January 1918, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DROWNING ACCIDENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Eltham, January 7. The body of a well-known resident, Mr. J. 13. Sim, was found this morning in the Waingongora River. Tho body had underpants on, and the remainder of the clothes were hanging in a shed close by. The body was lying face downwards in only .nine inches ofwater. It is surmised that deceased had a lit. An inquest will be held. De-ceased-was well known in Christchurch, and at one time was Mayor-of Sydenham. He had been for some timo m Eltham, and until recently was secretary of the Eltham branch of the farmers' Union. He leaves a wife and grown-up family. A son is in tho Imperial Army. Ghristohuroh, January I.

Gordon Mahon, a boy aged nine, was drowned in llie Lower Styx River yesterday. He was caiAping with two other boys near tho mouth of trie river, aud slipped into a deep hole.

CHILD FATALLY SCALDED AT OHINEMUTU. Rotorua, January 7. A Maori girl live years of age, named Riria Pakuarangi, got mtcf a batli Which had just been cleaned out a Ohinemutu on Saturday llie watei was so hot that the clnld was fatallj scalded. At the inquest a verdict or accidental death was wto l .* l . Another child was severely scalded in the saniQ batli on Sunday. ( MOTORING FATALITY. Dunedin, January.?. Alexander M'Lennan, aged Go, a farmer at Dunhack, was fatally injured yesterday through a motor-car running over a bank. His wile, who was also in the car, is suffering from concussion and shook. Their three boys escaped uninjured,

t Mrs. Miller, a resident of Miramar, sustained a rather severe shodt on Saturday evening, lhe ladj, on and ing that sho had passed her stoppm„ gee, alighted from the oar when *t wa proceeding at a fair pace, and. was thrown to the ground, where bhu toy partially stunned. The conductor, who saw the -lady step f.rom < the car, at once rang the emergency bell and stop ped the car. The lady was picked up and taken to her home. Mr. Nicholas C. Edwards, an electa-, cal engineer, died in Auckland on Endive following a fall ( l° wn a , .' e « stops in the Imilding of which his office is located. Mr. Edwards, who «as about 50 years of age, was fill Other occupants of the uunai t,, iu a dying condition, and m m Kan h namcd Noel Gumming* who ■joAn William Street, Lower Hutt had I S«». t° f°» SsSfcffiSa treatment at the Public Hospital.