ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2167, 24 August 1920, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dunedin, August 22. On Saturday, Arthur J. Pull on, aged 2d, a btishman, met with an accident at Tahaka'pa. A tree fell on him, fracturing his left ankle. John Archibald, aged 40, a coal miner, residing at Lovell's Plat, Avas crushed by a fall of coal at Dunlop's mine at Lovell’s Flat on Sattmlay. His hack is badly injured, and his left leg badly bruised. His condition is reported to be serious. . Angus Shaw, Avho is supposed to have come from Canterbury, left Dunedin by the Otago Central train yesterday morning, and was found dead'on (he railway line after the train had left Wingalui, having evidently fallen off and been drugged. A man named William Hillson, aged 47 year-, formerly a resident of Shannon, Avas killed at Pahialua on Saturday evening through falling from a hnteller’s cart. A two-year-old orphan boy named Smith, who Avas living Avitli his aunt at Geraldine, swallowed some caustic soda. Medical attendance was obtained, and the child Avas taken to the Timaru Hospital, where he died from shock and burned throat, A junior porter named Herbert Alole, aged 20 years, Avas killed at the Thorndon (Wellington) railway station on Saturday afternoon. He slipped while a (templing to close a carnage platform gate as a tram Avas leaving the station, and tel! on to the line, the Avheels of lavo carnages passing over his body and causing instantaneous death. A message from Dunedin gives particulars of a distressing fatality which occurred on Sunday afternoon, and Avliieh resulted in the death of the Rev. W. W, Brown, Presbyterian minister of East TaiMr Brown left in his motor car accompanied by Mrs Waddell, wife 'of the East Taieri schoolmaster, a- - r bout 2 o'clock, to hold a service at Allanton. He had readied a point where -two roads join, when another car struck his car. One of the back wheels of Mr Brown's ear came off, and the ear turned over twice, striking Air Brown, who died within three minutes of'tlie accident. Mrs Waddell was very seriously injured. Mr BroAvn was a comparatively young man, and a native of Invercargill. He took his course at the Otago University and the Presbyterian Theological College.