WEEK-END ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18724, 22 June 1926, Page 11

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS.

YOUNG MAN DIES OF INJURIES. •' Through, a fall from his motor-cycle on. Saturday night at Ashley,. a.. young man named Eobert Hamilton rcceiv d an injury which results in his.: death at the Christchurch Hospital at 5.20 p.m; yesterday. '.'...". I'./A't tho time pf>;i;bo fall ■ Hamilton did not appear to liecs'eriqusly; hurt, but on. Sunday nigh ft-.ho became delirious, ,and on the advice ©if Dr. King .was taken to tho Hospital,,where ho became unconscious. He was operated.on tho same, night,- but died without regaining consciousness. ' ~ An' inquest will be held. leg Fractured. As a consequence of ' slipping and falling in the back yard, G.. A. Powell, of "51. Gibbon street, Sydenham, was ta¥eu to the Hospital on Saturday night with his.left leg fractured. His condition is satisfactory. .' - Fall from Train. Mrs Dobier, of 135 Sherboume street, was taken to the' Hospital on Saturday night suffering frominjuries tfr'the head received through falling when alighting from a train. She is not seriously injured, and last night was stated to be making a good recovery. - Acetylene Explosion. Douglas Frith, of 16 Sonierfield street, Spreydon, a married man, aged 45 years, was admitted to the . Hospital yesterday with his left hand almost severed as the result of an acetylene gas explosion paused through the bursting of a generaMan's Nose Broken. : Whilst turning a disc which broke in half P. <?• Clements, of Blenheim, roid a 'wood turner, met with.a. painful accident on Saturday morning, part of to metal striking him in It was found, on his removal _to the irJnftal that his nose had becn.broken. Vftcr treatment he returned to ' 3ns home, Sere he is progressing,favour-