ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2631, 5 August 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(13 i XELEGHAnr—rFESS ASIGCIiTION*.; — 0 — motor car overturned. Dunedin, August 4. A motor car containing live peoplo wn coming from Palmerston yesterday afternoon to town. At tlio Kilmog Hotel, when, a wheel skidded, the tyre exploded, and the car. overturned. Two ladies—Mrs. Ailigo, of the Grand Hotel, and.Mrs. Millar, of the Oban Hotel—were pinned underneath the wheels for some'time, and had a miraculous escape. Both sustained injuries, Mrs. Millar having three ribs broken. BUSHFELLER'S DEATH. : Cisborne, August 4. Frank Kingston, who was severely injured while bush-foiling in the Motu district, lias died from the effects. ' The body is being brought out to Mptu to-day, where an inquest will bo held. FOUND DROWNED. ' Hastings, August 4, Tho body found yesterday proved to be that of Pu' Waiwaha, a Maori, who has been missing since Juno 17. Tho iury returned a verdict of "Found drowned.'' CAUGHT IN THE BELTING. Palmerston North, August 4. A' hoy employed in Messrs. Keeling and Mundy's printing office met with an extraordinary accident to-day. A ring' upon his finger caught on 0110 of the hooks attached to the belting, and'ho was drawn up to the ceiling. His hand was badly damaged, and on being taken to the .hospital one finger had to be amputated. A little girl of five named Lily Gibbons, daughter of an Akatarawa labourer, was admitted to tlio Hospital. at (3.30 last night suffering severely from hums. It appears that in lighting a gorso fire her clothes caught, and she was badly burned about tho legs, amis, and body. SUDDEN DEATH.; Dunedin, August 4. - A report readied Lawrence to-day to the effect that ail elderly 111:111, whose name is unknown, died suddenly at Tuapeka Mouth while digging a grave. BODY RECOVERED. (by TELEGlUm.—sri'.ciAi. correspondent). Palmerston North, August 4. Tho body of Andrew M'Ewcn, drowned in the Manawatu River last week, was recovered this afternoon.