ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 18 November 1930, Page 15

ACCIDENTS.

fatality at redcliffs. LITTLE BOY DROWNED. I'estcrday afternoon at about four o'clock, the body of a little boy, aged six years, was found on the Hedclitfs beach, opposite the residence of Mr A. liradley. -L>r. Bukeweil, of Sunnier, «as immediately summoned, but could only pruijounco life extinct. 'ihe child was a member ot the family of .Mr and Mrs J Graham. His mother last saw him about midday. Soon afterwards she missed him, and searched for him all the afternoon. The family live in a house on the waterfront, near The Cutting, Redcliffs, the residence at one time being occupied by Captain McLaglan. (Surrounding it is a stone wall, and, on this, wore found the boy's sandals. It is thought that he was fishing on this low wall and fell in just after the tide began to ebb. Apparently the clothes assisted the body to float, for it had drifted nearly a mile from tho scene of the accident. Tho spot is a rather lonely one lookin <i across the full width of the Estuary in tho direction of Pleasant I'oint

The water alongside tho wall is about two feet deep, and although children often play along this waterfront. very few accidents have been recorded in the past. An inquest will be held at three o'clock this afternoon. BROKEN RIGHT LEG. A middle-aged man, J. A. Booth, married, of Clifton, Sumner, was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital at 7 o'clock last evening suffering from a broken right leg. It was Btated that he was hoarding a tramcar at Sumner and slipped from the step. PATIENT'S PROGRESS. A change for the better has been shown in the condition of Claude

Mapple, the labourer, aged about 45, of Ilawkhurst road, Lyttelton, who received serious head injuries when he tripped on the pavement and fell down a bank outside his house last Friday afternoon. He is in the Christchurch Hospital. MOTORISTS INJURED. irasas associatioh tilioiuk.) OTAKI. November 17. A. J. Dennis, F. W. Dennis, J. Merrick, J. Gregory, and R. all of Wellington, left Wanganui in an Austin car yesterday. When near Waikanae a tyre burst, causing the car to sway, capsize over a bank, and burst into flames. McLeod, Gregory and Merrick, who were in the back seat, got free, but the former received head injuries. The Dennis brothers were severely burnt. They were taken to hospital bv Dr. Milne, and their wounds were dressed. Later thoy left for home by ambulance. Tho car was destroyed. HEAD INJURIES.

(FRESS ASSOCIATION TILBOBAM.) DUNEDIN, November 17. Henry Dods and William B. McEwan, while taking part in beach races at Waikouaiti on- Saturday, fell from their motor-cvcles and were admitted to hospital with head injuries. Their condition is not very serious. SHOT IN KNEE. C7BISS AiSOCIATIO* TSLEOBAK.) WELLINGTON, November 17. Shot in the right knee through the accidental discharge of a companion's rifle, W. E. Clapham had to be carried several miles down the Orongorongos before reaching an ambulance yesterday morning. Clapham, with several others, was pig shooting when a rifle of one of the party discharged accidentally, the bullet entering Clapham'# leg from behind and coming out through the knee-cap. He was placed on an improvised stretcher and carried through the bush to the nearest road, where he was picked up by an. ambulance. CHILD POISONED. (FRBSS ASSOCIATION TSLEOHAit.) HAMILTON, November 17. Arthur Douglas Ferguson, aged four years, a son of Mr George Ferguson, of Frankton, died from alcoholic poisoning yesterday, when he drank two tablespoonsfuls of gin frotn a cup left on a chair.