ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 57, 29 June 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Per Press association J Napier, June 27. On Saturday evening Mrs Bessie Palmer, aged 74, who-resided at Battery road, walked off a moving tramcar in Faraday street, and sustained injuries from, which she died in a few minutes. It appears that she had asked to be set down at Miller street, but before reaching there she walked off the car, which was travelling at six miles an hour. Dunedin, June 27. The body of George Shirley, a fisherman, who was drowned at the heads through a motor-launch capsizing on June 17, was discovered at Mihiwaka, i few miles from the scene of the accident, this morning. Timaru, June 27. Archibald Campbell, the railway tally clerk who was crushed in a truck by a U— ton lift from the s.s. Waiwera on Thursday morning, died about midnight. This morning an inquest was opened and was adjourned till Monday. The deceased was a native of New South Wales, was married, and had three young children. He was one of the two men who refused to fall in line with the strikers some time ago. He had boon known as a cricketer, and umpired in the New South Wales v. South Canterbury match at Temuka last season.