ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2951, 20 October 1925, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CAR SOMER.SAULTS,

Dnnnevirke, October 19,

A motor-car driven by Lui Paewai, of All Black fame, containing three other occupants, capsized in Ihe Norsewood district yesterday, after striking a bank and turning a couple of somersaults. Paewai is in hospital suffering from facial injuries, which are not considered serious, while Henry James Webster, the only other one to be injured, is in hospital with a damaged bade.

SUICIDE BY HANGING

Hamilton, October 19,

After winning a goodly sum on the racecourse and spending it in a long period of alcoholic saturation, a well-known identity of Ngaurawahia, Donald Roderick Finlayson (Til)), was found hanging by a strap in an outhouse vesterday.

At the inquest, where suicide by hanging was returned, it was staled that deceased had no one dependent on him, and, /decided to spend his money in his own way.

A FATAL JUMP,

Christchurch, October 19,

In mi ill tempt to jump n lior.se over n fence at Olioka on Saturday, Frederick Gilmore, a married man 2!) years of age, fell off tlie horse, which rolled on top of him, indcting severe injuries to liis head, from which he died in Christchurch Hospital yesterday.

THROWN FROM GIG

Auckland, October 19,

The capsizing of a gig resulted in .1, McQuoid, an Avondale resident, of) years of age, receiving a fracture of the skull, lie was driving (lie gig when the horse bolted. McQuoid remains unconscious in the hospital, and his condition is serious. CYCLE AND OAK COLLIDE. Hamilton. October lib As tin' result of a collision between a car and a motor cycle, a young man, (!. Latin. an employee of tiu> Public Works Department, who was riding the cycle, received a compound fracture of the right log.