ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8444, 11 August 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, August M. A very serious accident occuri?e.d afr To Awamutu yesterday. Mr W. J..» Ranby, a farmer of Ohaupo, was driving in a light cart between Te Awamutu and Kawa, -when the horse became 11umanageable, kicked tho frontboard away, and struck Kanby on-ttfr face. - Both eyeballs were smashed.. The bridge of his nose was completelybroken and his face much bruised. Itwas found necessary to. remove 'the* right eye, and the. injuries to the leftare so .serious that', it is ."feared that it will' also have" to-be removed. In- 1 any case, the injured man will be totailv blind.

AUCKLAND, August 11/ ■Mrs Julia Kelly, an old age pensioner, aged 70 years, was burned tcr death by a fire in the six-roomed housein Upper Queen Street which she occupied with her son, Andrew Kelly. The neighbours noticed a smell of fire during the night, but failed to locate the fire. TCarly in the morning smoke was seen issuing from the roof -of Kelly's house. The neighbours found the place ablaze and dragged Andrew Kelly out of bed. When the- fire brigade arrived, Mrs Kelly was found on the floor of her bedroom, dead, her body being badly burned. Apparently the* fire originated in-the room she slept in. The police have arrested Andrew Kelly on a charge of drunkenness. zNEW PLYMOUTH, August 10. A dead body found in the, scrub wifchr a lysol bottle alongside it. has been identified as thot of Daniel Condon, a. porter at the Hospital. H<y was 50 years of oge, and had been missing for two months.

NAPIER, August 10. A married woman named Fanny Harris, aged -54 years, wife- of Thqs» . Harris, a lineman, was found dead in j* quarry near her residence, early this morni'iK;;. Deceased'had been suffering from" ill-health for a considerable time, and last week attempted, ,to commit suicide by drinking a match-head solution. :

WOODVILLE, August TO. - Two motor-ears ran into one another yesterday in thp centre of the Maßa^watu Gorge at a sharp corner, wher© there was no chance of passing. In order to avoid goiny; over .the side of , the precipice they' had to bump into one another. Mrs A. Bolton and her daughter wore thrown out, and rolled" ■ some 'distance down tho river bfink be- •- fore tliey causjht hold of the bushes_ One lady had her nose injured, but fortunately no other damage was., sustained. Both cars were badly crusli^j, , and it took till nearly midnight • to effect rewaii-s. "

CHIUSTCHTTRCH, August IK C. Coohrane, who was riding Windage when lie fell in the Grand National Hurdle Handicap yesterday, .was admitted to the Hospital" suffering ■. from severe concussion of the-, brain, • and at nine o'clock last nij?ht was stilt unconscious. The other jockey, Bar- . tholoniew, who was admitted on Tnes- ■ day, was in a rather lower condition .' last night.

INVERCARGILL, August 10. A Syrian hawker, named Yusif Suirra, aged 60 years, fell or. jumped off the train at Makarewa last night, and sustained a fracture of' the skull a"" ,9^V r injuries,. resulting -in his death->f the'hospital to-day. "'