ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 70, 23 March 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[DI TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 22nd March. An eight-year-old boy named Frederick Gourlay was run into ty a motor cyclist on the New Brighton beach this afternoon, and suffered injuries from whifch ho died shortly afterwards. The cyclist (William Moorhousa) was practising for the motor races which ore to be held on^tho beach to-morrow afternoon, and was travelling at a fitst pace when the boy ran across the track. The lad was knocked a distance of about ten yards. He_ had three ribs broken and a kiieo splintered, besides other injuries. GISBORNE, 22nd March. A verdict of accidental death, no blame being attachable to any one, was returned in regard to the death of Andrew Sharp, traveller for the Phoenix Biscuit and Confectionery Co., of 6unodin. The evidence showed that ho was an abstainer from liquor, and that his hor6e. a high-spirited sue, got beyond Ins control as soon as he had got 'into tho saddle at Bruco's store, Waiohika. In o\ei.-taking v, buggy, it swerved, dislodging its rider, who apparently struck a wlioel of the buggy as he fell. Sharp, who was about thirty-fivo years of ago, had been employed by tho Phoenix Company for many year*.. Ho had left Dunedin to take up a position in Auckland at tho beginning of the present year. He leaves a vifo and one cnild, residing in Auckland. yesterday nfttrnoon a man named Chas. Brown, of 11 Cra\rfoid-tcrraee, met vith a painful accident whilst loading coal on theWarrimoo from the Gnzelle. A sudden. gust of wind blew a basket full of coa! agaJast hira and knocked him off a et&ging, causing him to fall between the two vessels. Brown Was tal'en to the hospital for treatment. A hibouier named Robert Whilor, 70 yems of age, had his left leg broken yesterday. He uas nnsi.stjn.ar to unload a cait nt the shed of Mt. C. F. Pulley, contractor for the KinpV, Wharf, when a cis:> of copper fell against him. Dr. Pollen attended Wliilcy, who wae afterwauls taken to jhe hospital. Henry Tobin, tho stevedore who fell down a hold on the Ttmtkina some days ago, and injured his lKad.and spine, was to-day lepotted by the hospital authorities to be a little better. \ Mns. Leonidas Smith, who was severely burned in her house at Island Bay laat Sunday, is reported to be in a Serious condition.

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