ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Feilding Star, Volume 1, Issue 49, 10 December 1923, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT. t-Per Press Association.) Napier. Dec. 9. Mrs Jo blip, of Mo re re. was knocked down by n motor car on Friday afternoon', and is unconscious in the hospital. William Henry Carlyle, the driver, was charged in the Court this morning with being in charge of a motor vehele while under the influence of liquor. He rwa.s remanded till Monday weelc. Oisborno. December 10. W'alta Burn, nine years old.' fell from a pier of the Kanalhavnl bridge and was drowned. Wairoa. December ,10. On Saturday evening two bathers collided when diving off the Xuhaka bridge. A lad named Christie sustained a broken back and is now lying paralysed. The other swimmer only sustained slight concussion. Sydney. December 10. A picnic party on Lane Cove river ate tinned tongue for lunch and almost immediately became ill. Thirteen were removed jo the hospital.. The condition of two is very serious. Altogether 70 persons were affected. DROWNED IN A WELL,

A sad fatality occurred at Maungawhata. last evening, when Libel May. the two-year-old daughter of Mr 1). ! C. Cook, was drowned in a well which ! had been left temporarily uncovered. lAt milking time the child was | taken with the family to the sheds and was alowed to wander about in this vicinity. It was not until ibe finish of the milking that she was missed, and then a search revealed the tragedy. The little one was removed from the well, and medical assistance sought, but no efforts could save its life. It appears that there had been a covering over the 1 well, though for the moment it had been removed. LITTLE GIRL DROWNED. At about six o'clock- on Thursday evening. Elfrida Winifred Traill, eight years of age. and residing with hvr parents at the railway settlement, Kaiwarra. Wellington, was drowned while bathing in the Kaiwarra tannery dam.

Sidney Hodgkinson, 22 years old, was admitted to the Wellington Hospital on Sunday morning, suffering from internal injuries sustained by a motor car passing over him in' Fea therston street.

Two young men, sleeping in Barrett's Hotel. Wellington, wore nearly suffocated in the early hours of Saturday by the smoke from the mattress of one of the beds oceuryied.