ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10540, 29 December 1899, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

I J"*! I f { As Mr John Henden»n, the licensee of the { Qlencoe Hotel, was dnving a horn and ) , buggy from Oamaru on Tuesday night, when t near Hildeithorpe, the horse boltecf, MdMr Henderson was thrown out of the b*W , and dragged to we WaEtaki bridge,a d«S ,of four miles. When ho was found he W J_ ! stiU conscious, but expired almost i-mmedi- . ately afterwards. Deceased was a membec , ( of the Wairoate County Council. '! An extraordinary bicycle-accident hap. pened on the Ferry road Cast night, whin two cyclists, proceeding in opposite dire* tions, and neither having lights on thefe machines, collided, the front wheels of both machines striking together. The cyclists ■ | were shot over the handles of their machines. " j The front wheels of both • cycles were smashed and they were otherwise damaged. I At an inquest at West Oxford concern-" ■ing the. death of the eight-year old son of * iMr Henry Askew, a verdict was returned jthat the child had died from diphtheria accelerated by paralysis of the heart. (PBESS ASSOC JATIONr TELBQKAMS.) WELLINGTON, December 28. information has been received here thai the wife of Mr D. Wilson, stationnwster at* « Unnondville, Hawke'e Bay, was drowned on Tuesday, while trying to save the life of a nieoe, who felt into the creek and was also drowned, WELLINGTON, December 27. A serious accident happened to" Mr WjP "- kinson, of Petone, last night. He wan rufctig ft s£*#-"W *° -'■&tefe& j fa_n_*i> GreytoW, J* wM the fork of ih-'-mma&Grolm, WS \ received a bad ■■emml€hgMmb . elude severe concussion c<-|be brain, * is still unconscious', s DUNEDIN, 'December 27. At the inquest on Jane Haugh, at Create- '. ton, who wm killed on Saturday by the dis. ■ charge of a gun, while making W brother's S bed, a verdict of "Accidental death" was - returned, '.j Information -was received late tills after*?'*noon that a man named Nicholas Swan WMdrowned near the Heads by the swamplna'K of a boat. **-*> I WANGANUI, December 27. «- Peter D. Hogg, a well-known i-esident ot ' Wanganui, was found dead this morning tax side the door of his residence. It appears' lie entered the house last evening without r a light, and fell against a, table, striking the back of his head and rupturing a blood vennel. His wife and family ore away on , a holiday visit. Deceased, who was forty years of age, was formerly a borough councillor. , [Mr Hogg waa a brother of Corporal J* Hogg, one of the members of the New Zealand Contingent now in the Twuisvaal.]