ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14428, 19 July 1907, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Pee Press Assocxmos.] GREYMOUTH, July 18. The young man named Smith, who waG injured through a log rolling on him while he was getting timber for the contractors at Messrs Bowater and Bryan’s sawmill at Ikamatua last week, died on Tuesday afternoon in the Reofton Hospital. It was found necessary to amputate a log. Tho operation was successfully performed, but tho patient died shortly afterwards. AUCKLAND, July 18. As a tram-car was coming down Pitt Street at 9.30 a.m. to-day, an old man, stated to be a resident of Avondale, walked right in front of it at tho Grey Street corner. He was knocked down and carried under tho platform, but, ns the car was proceeding at a slow' pace, it was quickly brought to a standstill, and a more serious accident averted. The man sustained a bad cut on the head. Ho was deaf. A girl, aged nineteen yeans, named O’Gallaghaii, was admitted to the Hospital about three o’clock on Wednesday morning, suffering from the effects of a dose of match-heads, so!f-mdminister-ed, in a fit of despondency consequent on’ a lovers’ quarrel. She is progressing favourably. At Ashburton yesterday, a- young man named Thomas Tait had a rib broken while playing in a football match. Charles William Ogle, who was burned to death in a hut at Glynn Wye on Tuesday, was aged about fifty, and, as fas as is known, has no relatives in. the colony. Ho had been for many yeara employed by Mr Duncan Rutherford as a rabbiter. . .