ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16808, 18 March 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

WINDOW CLEANER'S DEATH. [Per Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, March 17. While William Wells, a married mail, was engaged to-day cleaning the top floor windows of Sargood, Son and Eweu's warehouse, ho lost his balance and fell to the pavement, sustaining internal injuries, to which lie succumbed shortly after admission to the hospital.

A MOTOR-CYCLIST INJURED. [Per Prkss Association.] ASHBURTON. March 17. A young man named Charles M'Conachio was. rnotor-cycling baok to town from the show grounds this afternoon and towing a friend on a bicycle, when he swerved into tho footpath and ran into a telegraph post. He hit his head against" the post, and the impact rendered him. unconscious, in which condition he was still lying at. the hospital several hours later.

A married woman named Ann Elizabeth M'Gillivray, residing in Gloucester Street, was brought from New Brighton last night to the Christchurch Hospital suffering from deep cuts in her throat. She had bad a nervous breakdown and being advised by a medical man to have a change had been staying at New Brighton with her sister-in law. An operation performed at the Hospital was successful, hut early this morning the woman was in a very serious condition.

Edward Worthington, who met with an accident on Dyer's Pass Road on Sunday whilo riding a bicycle, is still unconscious, though lie is slightly better.