ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10333, 29 April 1899, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

*»f — : Mr T. Clarkson, of in*l" Lyttelton {_imes t » staff, met with a nasty accident on the Leeston cycle track yesterday. > He was' acting with other teams as a pacemaker for E. A.'Wall, and bis machine collided with - another tandem while Wall was trying to lower the New Zealand quarter-mile record. Mr Clarkson. received a very heavy spill, and though, fortunately no bones were broken, he had a very severe shaking and bruising, and one leg was cut severely. He_ had not intended to race, but filled up m. - - vacancy-at the last minute in one of the teams. Mr W. H. Evans, chemist, Leeston, rendered prompt assistance, (PBESS, ASSOCIATION {m.TOBA-M.) ,y% , WESTPORT, April 28T'"" J. Blacklock, a seaman on the eteameHawea, who was found unconscious in the hold on Wednesday afternoon, died in the hospital this morning. He never recovered - consciousness. The deceased was formerly second officer of the G. M. Tucker. ' WELLINGTON, April 28. A man named Joseph Campbell had both legs badly crushed by a trolly load of timber capsizing at Waikanae. DUNEDIN, April 28, - At the inquest concerning the dearth of' Mary Farrar, an elderly woman, who, wee seized with a fit in the street, and taken to the hospital on Monday, a verdict was re> turned of death from acute alcoholism and' pneumonia., - t