ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11539, 28 March 1898, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, March 26. A lad named George Shaw, while, on, horseback, collided with a trap, a shaft of which penetrated his left leg, badly fracturing it. Amputation may be necessary. WELLINGTON, March 26. Blake, who was injured by a dynamite explosion at Kaikonra, was so badly burned about the face that one of his eyes had to be removed at the Hospital. It is hoped to save the other one, ACCIDENT TO A BANK OFFICIAL. TIMARU, March 27. Mr James Percy Hargreaves, ledgerkeeper at the Bank of New Zealand, son of a well-known Christchurch resident, Mr W. H. Hargreaves, met with a painful accident during last night. It is known that sometimes he walked in his sleep, and at 2.15 this morning Constable Whatman, hearing groans, found him lying in his pyjamas on the asphalt beneath the window of his bedroom which is in the second storey of the Grosvenor Hotel, 15ft or 16ft above the footpath. The constable got him into the hotel, and fetched Dr Bowe and a nurse. Mr Hargreaves sustained bad cuts on his head and lost much blood, .but no permanent injury is anticipated. He was removed to-day to Nurse Clark’s private hospital, and was able to walk downstairs with assistance. He knows nothing of getting out of the window, the sash of which does not lift more than twenty inches.