ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 692, 17 December 1909, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■'••-' ACCIDENTALLY DKOWNED. ; -'-'r? :',' (By Tol«caDh.-Pr<iiii AB«oclntloa.l ; .> "-.,.■ ■■■■■:''..■•'■ . , ,;Napier, December,, 16: - v At an inquest held to-day, touching th« death of John Weir, a labourer, Mr. Brabant, (acting-coroner) found that' deceased was>ac'ci. dentally drowned while bathing : .in. the' Eiver' Js.sk near Petano, It-appeared- from ffie'evidence that Weir and a mate' had,been drinkae„at thoPotano Hotel while'on'the way 'from futira:to Napier. Thoy. separated nftov leav-' ing the hotel. Weir is supposed to have come from : Otago, and ..was about 35 yoats of,age.'

TEAM CONDUCTOBS INJTJEED. :■ --:< Tiro tram conductors,' employed by the 'Wei* lington Corporation, met with Borious acoidonts yesterday.' John Herlihy,26 years of age, residing in Queen Street, was '. waiting •■ along Waterloo. Quay, when he - noticed a horse: attaclleu to*!.van ! galloping- in his 'direction. Herhliy stepped out into tho roadway and grasped the ; . reins of ; the 'horse.'.-' The shaftstruck him on. tho chest/and ho-was knocked down and dragged a short distance. Herlihy was removed to the hospital,,whoro tho raedical'.l officers , discovered that-his-left ankle was .broken. ■■ '.. vv '■■. '"'■!/'.'■.:'.",'■., ; The second acoident .occurred in ". Kent- Tor- ' race, between Elizabeth and' Pino Streets, where John Lee Walker, conductor, aged 28 years, residing at Clydo, Street, Island Bay, fell from a palace car on to tho wood pave, mont. Ho, was attended, by.'Dr...Gilra}V. and removed to the hospital!: Lee is Buffering from' a fracture at the base.of the condition :is .reported to' : be serious. 'It i» [.not known how no came,to fall fjom his car,.;'.