ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13783, 23 June 1905, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press' Association.] WHANGAREI, June 22. Daniel Lang, an elderly gum-digger, while asleep on, the platform at Waro Station, near Hikurangi, was struck on the.head by the engine of the evening train, and killed instantaneously. DUNEDIN, Juno 22. Robert Aitken; a single man, - aged seventy-five years, was burned to dbath at an early hour this morning_ in an old hut in . which he, was sleeping, at Mosgiel. There was a slight mishap on th&, Papanui tramway route at about past eleven yesterday morning. _ A trap containing Dr Brownlee and his coachman was caught by a car at the Salisbury Street corner. A wheel of the trap had got into a dangerous position, and it w T as struck, but the shock thrust the vehicle outwards on to safe ground. Neither of the vehicles seemed to be injured by their impact, and each resumed its journey.