ACCIDENTS AND TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 May 1938, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND TRAGEDIES

CYCLIST INJURED. [PER press association.] GISBORNE, May 1. A cyclist. Ronald Skilton, married, aged 27, was knocked down and seriously injured when lie collided with a car driven by John Malcolm Kay. at G o’clock last night in Stout street. WOMAN’S FATAL COLLAPSE. AUCKLAND. May 1. Becoming suddenly ill at the trotting meeting at Epsom on Saturday afternoon. Mrs Annie Maguire, aged 64, married, of Grey Lynn, collapsed and was dead when she reached hospital in a St. John Ambulance. No inquest will be held, as Mrs Maguire had. been receiving medical attention for heart trouble for some time. YOUTH SHOT. DUNEDIN, May 1. A tragedy occurred on a deer-stalk-ing expedition at Greenvale, near Gore, about 3 p.m. to-day. when James Ralph Clark, aged 15, son of a widow, of Bay road, Waitati, was fatally shot. In company with two other youths, John Allan, of Waitati, and Leonard Ritchie, of Gore, Clark, who was not carrying a rifle set. out on a- deer stalking expedition on the property of Messrs H. R. and F. Henderson. The members of the party separated and not long after Allan saw a clump of manuka being disturbed. • Evidently thinking a deer caused, the movement he aimed his .303 rifle ami fired into the bush. On investigating he found that if. was Clark nt. whom he had unknowingly fired. An examination showed that Clark had been shot through the groin and. was still alive. Hurriedly Allan and Ritchie made a stretcher. • When Clark had been made as comfortable as possible the party set out on their reutrn across difficult country through dense bush to the homestead. Before they reached it, however, Clark had died'. FOUND SHOT } OAMARU, May 2. The death , occurred yesterday, morn-J 1 Ing at the Oamaru Hospital of Robert n

Buchanan Irvine, who for 30 years, till he retired a few months ago managed the local branch of Dalgety’s.

For over, a year deceased had been suffering from illness. He left home about 6.30 on Saturday night, but. as he had not returned by 9.30 a search was instituted, and he was found at the Columba, lawn tennis courts with a gunshot wound in the head, and a rifle alongside. He was removed to the hospital and died four hours later. FOOTBALLERS INJURED WESTPORT, May 1. Edward Nicholson was admitted to the Buller Hospital with severe concussion, received in the Tiroroa-Old Boys’ senior Rugby match at Westport. Nicholson, who was playing for Tiroroa. was unconscious for two and a-half hours. Douglas Summers, aged 26, was also admitted to hospital with a broken leg, the result of an accident in an Association match .at Ngakawau, between Ngakawau and Birchfield. His condition is satisfactory.