ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1931, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

CLIFFS TRAGEDY. MAX AND GIRL. (By Telegraph —Pei Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, .March 6. Tile body of Muriel McDonald, aged 1G years, was found at the loot of the cliffs at Scarborough to-day. The body had been terribly mutilated by being lashed against the rocks. Searchers who appioaohed the foot of the cliffs from the seaward side also saw another object which they believed to be the uody of a missing man. but the sea was too rough to permit them to approach. It appears that Miss McDonald and Claude Hargood Boundy, of AYoolston, were missing from their homes on Thursday, and it is feared that it double tragedy lias occurred. A motor cycle, found at Scarborough, has been identified, as Boumiy’s, and further along tfio top of the dill, were found two coats, and two wallets belonging to the girl McDonald and Roundy.

CYCLIST KILLED. / WELLINGTON, March 6. Through a collision between a motor car and a bicycle, which occuned at Eastbourne this evening, a cyclist received injuries from which lie died at Wellington Hospital three hours later. He was .lames 11 id gw ay, of Totara Street, a married man, aged 79. The accident occurred at the corner of Muritai lload and Ilona Street. Ridgway was riding along Muritai Road on his way to the Post Office. A five-sea ter motor car, driven by Miss 11. Black, who had as a passenger, the Borough Inspector, Mr N. Green, was going in the opposite direction. Before turning down Kona Street, Ridgv a> seemed to notice the ear approaching, and he turned down Ilona Street also, and the collision occurred. A CHILD KILLED. AUCKLAND, March 6. Fatal injuries were received by a child of three years, Peter Samuel Hudson, whose parents reside at Henderson. as the result of being struck bv the engine of a suburban train near Henderson railway station. The boy, with a brother a little older, was playing on the railway lines. The child received a fracture of the skull, and die two hours later.