ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17164, 22 March 1927, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

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AUCKLAND, Last Night. While the steamer Waitemata ' was bound from San Francisco to Auckland, a seaman, Edward Lowe (29) 1'ell overboard while unshiping a port light. A boat was ;owered but Lowe disappeared be1 fnre help reacli.ed him. WELLINGTON, March 21. The dead body of Mr L. E. John-. n, privale secretary to the Minis- • • t,f Agriculture, was found early ii's morning at the iiottom of a i.'glit well. Apparently deceased had umped oft" the roof of the building. Ife ha.d heen depressed ovcr a recenl Court case. He had a nimiber of relatives in New Zealand. DUNEDIN, March 21. Edward Morgan, a married man, residing at Yovk Place, was found • in the Museum grounds yesterday evening with ab ullet wound in his chest. He was admitted to the hospital, where it was recorded his condition was not serious. CHRISTCHURCH, March pl. Robert Radcliffe aged 19, was injured yesterday in a shooting accident and died this morning. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Two married men, F. Hay and Robert L. Bennet were serionsly injured on the wharf by a bale of goods frotii a chute falling npon them. Hays back was injured and Rennet's neck was badly hurt. Both are in hospital, Bennett in a critical condition. BLENHEIM, March 21. m.T.Cu rcar driven by Meikle, a conlmercial traveller of Nelson, at Okaramio. The car turned over and pinned Miss G. O'Connor unfier Ihe car. The wheel had to be jacked up before she was extricated, and she sustained a severe scalp wound, concussion , and minor injnries. Meikle was tlirown out. and received a dislocated and fractured collarbone and facial injuries. After treatment in Blenheim he returned home to Nelson. -TIMARU, March 21. Information has been received by the police of a fatalit yin Copland Pass. It appears that a party from the West Coast which included _Mr and Mrs John Condon was ncgotiating the Pass on Friday, when it encountered a severe blizzard. E (Torts were made by the guides to secure food and blankets, bnt before their return MrA Condon expired. No dej tails are available. WAIPAWA, Last Night. .Tohn Cleary .labourer, (45 met with a tragic death on the Omakere road. He was driving a countv road roller np a steep pinch and it is snpposed that in endeavouring to ehange gears he missed. The roller ran baclcwards over the bank and Clearys head was cruslied to pulp. • He leaves a widow. AUCKLAND, Last Night. A serious accident occurred at Papatoetoe this morning/ when a motor cycle and a pnsh bicycle collided at the intersection of a side roacl and the main concrete highway. The riders of both were badly hurt. The cyclist, Robert Holland, of Otahuhu, sustaining a compound fraclure of the leg and head injuries. Ile was operated on at the Auckland Hospital this morning and is in a critical condition. The motor cyclist," * 3orge Pollard (21), Otahuhu, was also admitted to tlie Auckland Hospital where he is suffering from injuries to the head.

DUNEDIN, Last Night. The body of Rosanna Elder, single (60), was washed up on the St. Kilda beach this afternoou. Deceased, who resides at Mosgiel Junction, had heen visiting hre _sister in Dunedin and had been missing sinee 10 o'cloclc in the morning. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. At the inquest on the body of Robert RadclifTe (19), William Harry Brooker (18), a member of the shooting party told liow the accident occurred. Witness, with Radcliffe, and three other young men, were out rabbit shooting. Deceased was walking seven yards in front of witness. Witness was^ climbing up a rise and was cocking his gun when he tripped. Thc hammer slipped from his thumb and the charge exploded. "Deceased did not f all, but said : "You shot rne Bill !" Witness thought deceased was joking till he put out a hand and sank down. Half an hour after the accident a shooting party in a motor car was stopped io take deceased to the hospital. The CorOner returned a vcrdict of accidental death.