ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1717, 7 January 1920, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A lad named Anstice, who was one of a party camping at Mourn, Holdsworth, wa.severely burned about the legs on Saturday lasi through the upsetting of a tin of boiling- water. Ho was b/ougJit in to Masterton and medically' attended. A young man named E. H. Harknesa was accidentally' shot in the arm by a pea-rifle bullet at the Upper Moutero sports, Nelson, on New Year’s Day. There ■was a shooting gallery on the ground, and at the back of the target was located the competitors’ dressing-tent. One of the shots missed the target and struck Harkness, who was in the tent preparing to start in a race. Ho was taken to Richmond, where the bullet was extracted, and later in the clay he returned to the sports ground. After the accident, which might have been of a more serious nature, tho v gallery was removed to a less dangerous position.

A Gisborne contemporary says that few people at the sports thorp saw L. Mangham * receive his full while motor cycle racing. Ho was hot on Coleman’s trail, and was travelling all out. His bicycle skidded, and charged the fence. Mangham let go ofthe handles as the cycle struck, and the force of the impact shot him over the fence rail and tlnough the air for fully fifty yards. He landed between two trees, all of a heap, but beyond a torn pair of tyousers and hits of skin oif in several places he was not hurt. The bicycle had the front forks damaged, and a post in the . fence was broken The cycle was repaired, and Maugham rode it an hour and a-half later in the New Zealand championship event. This time, after In- had covered six laps, a chainbroke. ’I bis he repaired, and was finishing the remaining nine laps when the o ,r T called him in. *

ANOTHER' MOTOR FATALITY

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 6. A serious accident occurred to-night at Alexandria Park, when a motor cycle, ridden by William Charles Macklow, collided with a motor cycle ridden, by Selwyn Craig.' Both cyclists wore thrown heavily, and Macklow, who was 25 years old, was taken to the hospital suffering from a serious internal injury, from which he died shortly after lies admission. Craig sustained a broken arm. Both men were practising.

LAUNCH-OWNER MISSING.

AUCKLAND, Jan. 6.

Fears are entertained for the safety ofMr Fred De Lisle. -a married man, 35 yuars of age, and residing at 60 John street, Ponsonby. He loft Auckland in a small launch on Christmas morning, stating that ho was going to the Great Barrier Island, and expected to return the following Sunday. He has not been heard of since.

Mr De Lisle is a motor mechanic, and purchased the hull of the launch some time ago and fitted it out with an oil engine. He is supposed to have had a companion with him.