ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 May 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A DRIVER KILLED

(By Telegraph.—PreM Association.) JPALMERSTON N., Sunday. I A fatal accident occurred late on. Saturday afternoon on the road between Palmerston North and Rongotea, by which Archibald Elliott, a single man, who oame from Timaru, lost his life. The coach was going to Rongotea, and when about a mile from that place Elliott was seen by two passengers inside tllie coach to get down off the box seat-; As he was attempting to return to his seat the horses were apparently startled, for they suddenly plunged, knocked Elliott down, and then bolted. The passengers oould not see all that happened, and had enough to do to look after themselves, for the coaoh was overturned shortly afterwards and they were both thrown out on to the road and considerably bruised. On returning along the road they ' found Elliott quite dead, the wheels of the coach having passed over his | body. .

ACCOUNTANT DROWNED

INVERCABGILL, Last Night. F, M. Cochrane, an accountant, aged 32, was drowned in New Riv. on Sunday afternoon through' a boat winch he was Jn capsizing. His companion, a man named Cecil Hallet, made a plucky effort to rescue Cochrane. and got him ashore, but life was extinct.

FIREMAN DROWNED. WANGANUI, La&t Night. A young man named Spencer Abbott, aged 21, who was a fireman on the river steamer Wairui, fell overboard 0n,.. Saturday .and >\a< drowned, abort fourteen miles above Pipiriki. There was a flood in the river af. the time FOUND DEAD. CHRTRTOHTJRCH. Last, Night. . Alexander Barrett, lately a groom in a local gtahle, was found dead at Avondale yesterday with a bulletwound in his head, and a revolver by his side. ■*