ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16872, 10 June 1918, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR.

MAN MISSING FROM PARNELL. Information -was received by the city police yesterday that tHe body of a man named Harold S. Thomson, aged 47, who had been missing from his home at Birdwood Crescent. Parnell, since Friday, had been found in Judge's Bay. An inquest will be held to-day.

DEVONPORT RESIDENT'S DEATH.

COLLAPSE FROM HEART FAILURE

A married man named Charles Clark, aged 71, who resided at 16, Grey Street, Devonport, died suddenly at his residence on Saturday morning. At the inquest, he'.d in the afternoon, before -Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., it was stated that deceased had been in failing health for some time, but had not been attended by a doctor. He complained on Saturday morning of a feeling of congestion about the chest, and on getting out of bed fell on the floor and died. Dr. H. C. P. Bennett gave evidence that he bad known the deceased for many years, although he had not attended him professionally. He had noted recently that there were indications of heart weakness, and in his opinion death was due to heart failure following on senile decay. The coroner's verdict was in accordance with the doctor's evidence. Deceased was born in Lincolnshire, England, and arrived in New Zealand in 1870.

ADMISSIONS TO HOSPITAL.

SERIES OF MISHAPS.

Several accident cases were admitted to the hospital during the week-end. A boy, aged 8, Donald Reid Caldwell, whose parents reside at 57, Nelson Street, f**ll from the roof of a verandah on Saturday, and sustained injuries to his head. Three cases were admitted yesterday, the most serious being that of a Dalmatian labourer named Mark Yelavick, aged 22, who resides at Papakura. He was riding a motor-cycle, and fell, receiving injuries on his head. Others admitted were William Peebles, aged 15, a resident- of Manurewa, who was treated for an injury to his arm. and Lance Kivell, aged 17, who resides at Manukau Road, Epsom, who fell on a broken bottle, sustaining a severe gash in his wrist. HOSPITAL PORTER'S DEATH. KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAM. fI)Y TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. Sunday. A porter at the Public Hospital, Mr. \Y. R. Cox, was knocked down by a Roslyn car in Rattray Street on Saturday evening, and died in the hospital a few hours later. Deceased was a married man with a family living at Roslyn. MAN AND BOY INJURED. STRUCK BY MOTOR-CARS. [by telegraph.—PßESS association.] FEILDING. Sunday. Feilding had a bad week-end in the matter of motor-car accidents. On Friday evening Mr. E G. Stapp, the local postmaster, while walking along the street, was struck by a car coming from behind, and carried 20ft. No bones were broken, but Mr. Stapp was very much bruised, and will be laid up for some days. On Saturday night a telegraph messenger named R. J. Christofferson,' was much more seriously injured. While riding to work he was knocked down by a car. and when picked up was unconscious. It was found that his skull was fractured and that he had sustained other injuries. He was taken to the P 'merston Hospital, and at latest advice w.us still in a dangerous condition. He is the oldest son of a widowed mother.

In another accident two cars met head on while travelling on the Awaburi Road. Both were damaged, but. their occupants were unhurt. Two ladies driving in a. gig along the road collided with the wrecked cars, but again no one was hurt.

WOUNDED BY WILD BOAR.

LAD'S PAINFUL EXPERIENCE,

[BY TELEGRAPH-OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

PALMERSTON NORTH, Sunday.

A young man named Logan Atkinson, son of Mr. Ceorge Atkinson, who resides at the top of the Tararua ranges, was injured a few days ago as the result of an encounter with a large wild boar. In company with his younger brother he was engaged in pig-hunting. He shot a sow, whose litter he and his brother attempted to capture. W bile so occupied a boar rapidly approached. Logan Atkinson made for a big punga tree and scrambled up it, but the boar launched himself at the trunk of the tree, and after a series of charges succeeded in hurling it, with its human occupant, down the steep hillside. oung Atkinson scrambled out of the mass of bush in which he was enveloped, and started to climb another tree. He was not quick enough, however, for as Jie was hauling himself up the boar shot past, and in doing so brought his tusks into play, inflicting a wound 2in deep and 6in or 7in long. The injured youth was eventually brought in to the Palmerston Hospital.