Accidents and Fatalities.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6583, 28 December 1899, Page 3

Accidents and Fatalities.

I , ■ —.—_« [ (Per Press- Association). DcnediK December 27. Information has been recoivcd that g late this afternoon a_man named Nicholas Swan was drowned near the heads. Ho was going off to a yacht in a dingey - with two others,when the boat swamped. Auckland, Decoinber 27.. ~ The jockey Lindsay, who was thrown from The Slavs in a pony race yesterday, f is more sevorly injured than was at first anticipated. ! A boy namod Samuel Clnrko, living at JPamell, narrowly escaped poisoning by ' Wallowing an eye lotion of He . ['is slowly recovering... I A serious bicycle accidont occurrei in Gruytown on Tuesday evening, the jmf- I ferer boing Hr Fred Wilkinson, Uho > manager of tho Wellington -Wocjlcn* Company's warehouse at Petone, whojvas cycling to the railway station. Wlior.ho •was coming down a slight inclino'on |ie 'Kuratawhlti road #t a hurried pfec (says' the Standard), tho fork of wo front*wheel of his. machine completdy snapped, and Willuusan was hurled ()i to the hard road with a terrific smasli He was picked up in a terrible condition greatly lacerated about the fnco anil -i body, and in cm unconscious state. Dj j Porritt "pronolhoed the caso to bo . J j v; serious one. c With refcrenco to the death by drowiij ins," chronicled yesterday, of' Mrs i) g I Wilson, wife of the statiomuaster a j : OrmQndvilie, it appears that the unfortd . i natelady met her doath in attempting, tj ( save the lifo of her niecc. Tho girl fcl into a creek, and in endeavouring. i extricate hdr Mrs Wilson shared tfej same fate as the girl. , j '] <