ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9157, 15 July 1895, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

On Saturday morning & woman named Garth, while walking quietly along the pavement, slipped and fell on her left arm, causing a " collea" fracture of her arm. She was at once conveyed to the Hospital, where she received attention.

The police have received advice from Constable Costin that he conveyed the body of the man who lay buried in the snow beyond the Clarence River road to Molesworth oa Wednesday nit;ho, but as an iuqaeat could not be held there he has pone on with it to the Arawatea. In the pocketi of the deceased was found a pocket-book bearing the name " William Morris," and this, with the faut that a man bearing that name was seen in the locality where the body was found on the 19th inst., caused the police to believe that the body is that of William Morris.

A man named Falioon in getting out of the Papanui bus at Papanui on Friday night slipped and sprained his foot severely. William Bath, a young lad who is subject to fits, was found lying on the lootway in High street, St. Albiius, ia a state of convulsions on Saturday afternoon by a young man named Neate. He had a nasty cut over his eye and waa otherwise bruised about the face. Neate had him conveyed to the Hospital. A man, named William Rostrum, a seaman on board the barque Southern Belle, sustained a very painful injury on Friday afternoon. He was iv the hold of the vessel discharging heavy piles, when by some means his leg become jammed between two of them. Ou being released, he was taken to the casual ward and attended to by Dr. Pciirman, who found the bone of the leg badly cracked and splintered and a very severe flesh wound in the calf, which had to be stitched with some seven or eight stitches. The iujury will confine Bostrum to his room for a month at least.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, July 13. A lad named Frederick Lawrence Doolan was killed in a trap accident.