MOTOR MISHAP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 212, 27 January 1913, Page 5

MOTOR MISHAP.

A FATAL CAPSIZE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. News was received to-day that Bartholomew Lynch, traveller, of Invercargill, was killed in a motoring accident at Maf.auri Island this morning. Particulars are meagre, but it is understood that the motor-car went over a bank, the occupants being thrown out. Tlier»: was another man in the car, but he escaped without injury.

A FATAL TYRE BURST. Timaru, Last Night. Through the bursting of a tyre, a fatal motor-ear accident occurred last evening, four miles south of Timam. The car was owned and driven by lie FarlaTie, a farmer on the "Waitaki. Charles H. Guthrie, stock agent at Waimate for the N. M. & A. Company, was alongside him, whilst in the back seat was Harrison, a farmer at Waihao anl two young daughters of McFarlane. The car capsized upon the men. The girls were thrown clear, unhurt. Guthrie, a married man, was killed, whilst McFarlane was very seriously hurt, sustaining a broken leg and ribs, and was also hurt in the head. Harrison was slightly injured, and is suffering chiefly from shock. McFarlane and Harrison were formerly of Rakaia.

TWO TAXI-CABS COLLIDE. Wellington, Sunday. A Tiiotor-etir accident of a serious nature occurred yesterday near the Silverstream bridge. Two cars were bound for the races, and it appears that one taxi-car was being taken past the other. The latter got too far off the road, and in attempting to straighten it up the driver turned its head back on to the road too sharply, the result being that the two cars collided. One dashed clean through a wire fence, taking out the posts, and pulled up much damaged in the adjoining paddock. The other, which was also damaged, remained on the road. The occupants of both cars were thrown out violently. Joe Foster, the driver of one of the cars, was thrown through the wind screen, his right hip being severely lacerated. Mr. W. M. Curtis, an American visitor, had his left arm broken. IT. Brown suffered an injury to his back. and Higgins. another passenger, suffered from shock. Of those in the other ear Messrs. Gerald Stead and M. Murphy escaped with a shaking, but Harry Duff, of Ifawke's Day. had several ribs broken.