CHRISTCHURCH HAPPENINGS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1924, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH HAPPENINGS.

■ - CHRISTCHURCH. August 13. SUDDEN DEATH. Samuel Knight, seventy years of ago, wlio for twenty years had been in the employ of Messrs 13a Ilaiity no and Co as a hatter, dropped dead about 3.30 yesterday afternoon. Heart failure is believed to have been the cause of death. A FRACTURED LEG. Mrs James Johnston, residing at the corner of Rosewarne and Somerset SI roots, slipped on a footpath in Cashel Street yesterday and fractured her left leg. COLLISION WITH TRAM. A single man named Albert Woods, residing in Whitelcigh Avenue, Addington, was admitted to the Hospital at 9.30 ().in. yesterday suffering from injuries to his right arm, received as llie result of his colliding with a tram near Deans Bush whilst riding a cycle. KICKED BY HORSE.

Kicked by a horse at Ellesmere yes.onlay morning, M. R. O’Sliauguessey ■oceived a compound fracture ot the iglit leg, which necessitated his renewal to the Christchurch Hospital. FAIR. FROM TRAM.

The holly of the elderly mail who fell from a tramiar at tile corner of Colombo Street and Moorliouse Avenue on Monday evening, was identified at the morgue bv Joseph Cunningham, as that of John Wliitlmry, a cook, sixtvl'our years of age, a native of Russia. Mr Cunningham states that deceased (■■iino to his place on Saturday hist and said lie had been working for Mr Harris, of Mothvcn.