ACCIDENTS. AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 16663, 20 February 1918, Page 4

ACCIDENTS. AND DEATHS

A P.A. message from Hawcra states: A motor accident occurred List on tlie Manaia road, when a- vo'ung mar. named Bram, of Kapuni, who* was° riding" a. motor cycle, collided with a motor car. The bicycle was smashed' to bits, and the motor car was badly damaged. Bunn, whose leg was badly fractured, was removed to the Hawera Hospital. Rule Smith, 18 years of age, was killed at Weber (near Dannevirke) yesterday through horses bolting. The deceased was employed as a teamster by the local council. His parents reside at 19 Lawson street Koslyn. Arthur Walden Allan, aged 15 years, was drowned in the Woolston baths (Christ' I church) last evening. I A four-year-old child named Marjorie Helen Buxton, residing at Shirley (Christchurch), died from the result of scalds. Iho mother of the child was washing in an outhouse, and in her absence the little girl poked the lire, upsetting a 'kettle of boiling water and scalding herself. The Hospital authorities reported to-day that the condition of Mr Edward Towsey, who was injured about a week ago through being knocked down "by a motor cycle In Princes street south, shows very little improvement. The death occurred last Wednesday night at Tirohia (Auckland) of Mrs Mary Sutcliffe, aged 36 years. On tho previous day sho was seen to enter a small outbuilding, and it is stated that she was carrying a rope. Some time later one of her four children found Mrs Sutcliffe unconscious. Around her neck was' a rope, | the other end of .which was fastened to a rafter. Tho child gave the alarm, and Mrs Sutcliile was taken into tho house, where she was attended by a medical man! It was at first thought she would recover. The deceased had been suffering from nervous depression. Mi* John Pawson, who was injured in a motor accident on Sunday, died in the Hawera Hospital to-day.—Press Association.