ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17614, 19 October 1917, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

..'• -.- ..: — : .♦ —-~~ , . MOTOR FATALITY. ' (*•, [Pee Pbess Association.] "' .' JIASTERTON. October 18. \ motoring party left Masterton a tittle« alter eight' o T clock last night. • twelve miles out something went wrong • with the: car, which crashed over tho vide of Kahumingi bridge, falling about 30ft into the river. The occupant* were •jinned underneath. Mr Laing managed to free himself and pbtain assistance, trid when the car was removed Mr Con- - ieadV -, \.-\ . r ';•■-.- ■-'..'■■ , • , ■■ • ,„.~. ' ..' ' ' MINER KILLED. [Peb Pbess Association.] • -; ■:■■■. WAiHI, October 18. . A miner, named John M'Pherson, *-as killed,at. the Waihi mine. A roundUofL holes had been fired, after which M'Pherson returned and barred down .the loose stones. A large piece tnme away unexpectedly, striking him • on : the head, killing him instantly. Ho leaves a wife and six children. ..-,. FATAL BURNS.. [Peb Pbess Association.] ~- WELLINGTON, October 18, Miss Charlotte Grant, aged sixty, who severely "burned her hands, arms and Jlhest last week through a newspaper she i was reading taking fire, causing her tilothing to ignite, died this morning. '.A'manand a boy, each mounted on a bicycle, collided at noon yesterday, and thp boy \vas thrown just in front of an oniward-bojind Papanui tramcar, which, fortunately, was just pulling up. Tile boy was taken to a neighbouring chemist's, but was found to bo only brjiised and badly scared. : During the progress of a rounders match between the Wharenui and Sydenham School girls on the Polo Ground ont Wednesday, one of the Sydenham yirls fell and broke her collarbone.