ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1920, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KILLED OK RAILWAY. By Telegraph.—Press • Association. Dunedin, August 23. Angus Shaw, who is supposed to have come from Canterbury, and who left Dunedin by" the Otago Central train this morning on his way to take up a position on a farm, was found on the railWay line after the train had left Wingatui, having evidently fallen off and bean dragged. CLERGYMAN KILL!® WHILE MOTORING. Dimedin, August 2.1. A motor accident yesterday afternoon resulted in the death of Rc-v. W. W. Brown, Presbyterian Minister at East Taieri. Mr. Brown left in his ear accompanied by Mrs. Waciclell, wife of the East Taieri schoolmaster, at about 2 o'clock, to hold a service at Allanton. .He had readied a point where two roads join, when another ear struck his car. One of the back wheels of Mr. Brown's car came oil', and the car overturned twice, striking Mr. Brown, who died within three minutes. Mis. Waddell was very seriously injured. Mr. Brown was a comparatively young man, a native of Invercargill. He took his course at Otago University and the 'Presbyterian Theological College. A SHOCKING DEATH. Wellington, August 23. Herbert Mole, aged 20, a junior porter at Thorndon railway station, slipped while trying to close a carriage platform gate and fell on to the line. Two carriages passed over him and he was killed instantly.

FATAL FALL FROM CART.

Pahiatua, August 23. A man named William Hillson, aged 47, formerly a resident of Shannon, was killed on Saturday evening through a fall from a butcher's cart.