ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 16187, 8 August 1916, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

A serious accident took place on the Clarksvilie road about 3 p.m. ou Saturday (says the 'Bruce Herald'). Whilst Mr and Mrs John Wvber, of Crichton, were driving into Milton, a motor car collided with the vehicle, Mr and Mrs Wyber being thrown violently to the ground. Dr iSutherland proceeded to the scene of the accident and brought the sufferers into Milton. Mrs Wyber was found to have sustained a broken rib, and was also seriously bruised and shaken and bady cut about the face. Mr Wyber escaped with a severe shaking. The car and occupants apparently escaped serious djunagc. Mr XV. B. M. Fea, manager for Gregg and Co.. Dunedin, while on a visit to the Chicory Farm, Inch Clutha, on Saturday, had a painful and \inusual experience. He stooped to pat a cattle dog at a turnip field in the vicinity of the farm, when the animal snapped at his face, inflicting a nasty wound, and then, not content with that, it bit Mr Fea severely on the left hand. The wounds were attended to at the house of Mr If. Hogg, tho farm superintendent, and afterwards an arrival at Dunedin Mr Fea received medical attention. Yesterday he was progressing well. "• Strangely ' enough, when Mr Fea joined the second express at. Balclutha en route for town, whom should he encounter hut his brother, Mr D. M. Fea, also with a hand in bandages. The latter, it seems, had met with an accident on his farm at Tahakopa attending to a chaff cutter, a thumb and two fingers being taken off.— Balclutha ' Free Press.'