ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PRISON VAN COLLAPSES. " ! (By TeHertßh-Prew Association.) I ■mm * *». , Ch «"l»tohurch, November 15. ' WWle the pohoo van was 'conveying a load v ef prisoners Irtm the Supreme| Coir! to the' railway atitfam to-night, a wheel colkpeed! and ' named Geo, Allan, received severe muroea t? Sf.f i and and ffas **** to 'he tospltal in a Kmi-oonscioua condition, ' GIRL AND MOTOR-CAH. a vim • 1 C hriltchurch, November 15. i ' A • Uttle gjjl Burned Iris Marion Jackson, i Sofrinju^t l ' tO - n,Sht ' and 6Omei * i ; pishing; , and a,tragedy. n i «•.-.. "GMierne, November 15. ' m CT A m Jv A J: aroa Bta^ 3 * at on S&tiirdny So T?. tta ?t No^ v f» we "t nut in a boat fishWntJ nttem P ted , to return about 3 o'clock in tho afternoon, and whoa half way homo the boat capsiwd. The three oocupants hung on for some time, when one, Tirapira Hum. drop,' ped off and wasi drowned. ThoW still drifted before, the wind in tho direction of Horoera, and soon a second man, named Wiropu Tani. nana, dropped oil and was teen no more. I'ho boat still continued drifting with tho third man, I'uknka Koherp. Ho,managed to get a some, time ho safoly reached tho shoro ot Aru, ,pua m an exhausted condition. An oillannch left yesterday morning to mako all watch for the bodies, but tho quest was uniQCcesstul. , ■ WniLE CATOniNG WHITEBAIT. a i . v*f VBlonhelm, Novomber" 15. A drowning accijont pecurrod in the Opawa. Klver tnis morning. Mrs. Brown, wife of James Brown, bootmaker, wont out accompanied by hnr adopted daughter, n child of abont four years/ for the jrorpoio, of catching whitebait, Bnddehly sho disnppMrwl to tho,bottom of tho nver. Tho child ran to tho house of a neighbour, who, with assistance, recovered the body. A doctor tjas summoned, bnt found that life viii extinot. Mm. Rtown had complftinod thn mornjug of not feoling well. "THINGS PBCYlij) ON IfIS MIND," V/almat«, Notembcr 15. A middle-aged man named Robert Hyland Smith, well known as a bo.okmftkcif, committed , guicide at 11.30 o plock last night by cutting his throat lvith a rarer. Ho was fined last wodk for nssQulting an old man on the ehow grounds, whilst'drunk, and this and other Uiings preyed on his mind.