ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18308, 19 January 1920, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

1 SHOOTING ACCIDENT.. While out shooting on the hills on Saturday afternoon, a man named John Murray, residing at 61, Tweed Street, Richmond, was shot through the log, owing to his gun being accidentally disi charged. H© was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital on Saturday night and is reported to he progressing fat durably. .FALL PROM A WHARF. At about 6.15 p.m. on Saturday an elderly man, named Albert Johnson, of St Albans, an intending passenger by the ferry steamer Maori, proceeded from Norwich Quay to the side of the s.s. Kanna, which was lying at No. 4 wharf. Ho was accompanied by a fireman off that vessel, whom he informed that he wished to see a friend on hoard the Kanna. Just as he was in the act of stepping from the wharf on to the Kanna, he slipped down between the Bhip's side and" the wharf into the tvater, striking his forehead as he dropped. The fireman immediately jumped down after him, secured him and, by clinging ;to one of the piles until assistance was given, ho kept him above water. ■ A rope was lowered and bound around Johnson, who was then hauled up oh to the wharf. Dr Newell was summoned, and after he had examined Johnson the latter was removed to the Lyttelton Casualty Ward by two constables, and medical attention was given him for the blow ho had received on the head. Johnson was also badly bruised about the body. In trying to prevent another motorboat from striking the Colleen, which Was tied up at the end of the Gladstone Pier, on Saturday afternoon, just at the conclusion of a motor-boat race, Harry Hessy had the misfortune to have a finger of his left hand jammed between the bow and the side of the boats.' Dr Uphara, who attended him ehortly afterwards, found it necessary to amputate the first joint of the finger. The accident is particularly unfortunate for Hessy, as he had previously lost two i other fingers.