ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12589, 26 August 1901, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press Association.] PALMERSTON NORTH, August 24. At the inquest touching the death of Harold Knight, a verdict was returned to the effect that the deceased accidentally shot himself. WESTPORT, August 25. A man in the railway employ, named W. Lawrey, met with a painful accident yesterday. While working in an excavation to pick up an old drain, the sides of the bank, composed of shingle, fell in on Lawrey, who sustained internal injuries, and died in the hospital this morning.

DUNEDIN, August 25. Hugh M’Drarmid, nineteen years, tVas killed in George Street, on Saturday evening. It has become the practice with hundreds on Saturday rights, to walk on the roadway instead of the pavement. M’Diarmid and friend were doing this when a-tram car was going down the hill past the Octagon. The driver gave a warning Whistle, and the friend stepped off the rails, but for some unknown reason deceased did not. He was struck by one of the horses, and one of the wheels went over his chest, crushing it.

As Mr L, Wilson was driving to town from Teddington yesterday, and when coming doijm the Dyer’s Pass Road, over the Port Hills, he met with what might have been a very serious accident. Coming round the bend passing Victoria Park, he was spoken to by a gentleman who was standing on the bank above him. Mr Wilson’s attention was attracted from his horse, which swerved and ran the off wheel of the gig against the blink. The vehicle rebounded, and the whole concern, with the driver, went over the side, and rolled down the hill until momentarily brought up by a wire fence some distance below, which the animal jumped, and the concern was eventually brought up in some flax bushes further down the hill. Mr Wilson, who had pluckily stuck to the reins was compelled to let go at the wire fence. Some members of the Civil Service Volunteer Corps had witnessed the accident from a distance, and went to Mr Wilson’s assistance. The horse was cut about, and one shaft of the gig was broken. Ijlr "Wilson was found nob to be seriously hurt, although much bruised; and more especially about one of his ankles. The Volunteers soon had the trap np on tho read again, and placed it inside Victoria Park, and Mr Wilson was brought on to town. On Saturday afternoon a gentleman hired Messrs Hayward and Sens’ charabanc, and a pair of horses, and drove to Governor’s Bay, accompanied by a lady and two children. After having dinner at the Governor’s Bay Hotel, the party had just got into th© carriage to start for home, when the driver's attention was attracted by something, and the- horses moving off, went over the. low bank to the road, and as the conveyance tilted over all the occupants ■were thrown out. At this moment the horses made a bound forward, and this pulled pole and body off the undercarriage, and the animals galloped off with the top of the carriage dragging on the ground behind them. They continued their career for about a mile when they were stopped by some men on the road. The carriage is a thorough wreck, and the horses were much knocked about, but the occupants cf the concern got off with a few slight bruises. The remains of the conveyance were taken back to the hotel, and the horses sent back to town.