OCCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4260, 21 January 1901, Page 5

OCCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A DRIVING MISHAP. PEESS ASSOCIATION. GISBORNE, Januar/ 19. This evening Mr MacLaurin, a stationholder was driving homewards and on a narrow road along the Waimata river bank he met a sulky containing Misses Laird and Wylie, two hospital nurses, and a child patient they were taking for an outing. The horse attached to the sulky took fright at the sudden meeting and made the other horse do likewise. The horses and vehicles rolled over the steep embankment and the were thrown out. Of those in Mr MacLaurin’s buggy, Miss McKay, a young lady visitor, who was to return to Auckland on Sunday, had her face badly cut and her right elbow injured, Miss Scott fell mtc the river and had her head badly cut. Miss Bright, a hospital nurse, was severe!} shaken, as were the occupants of the ot-hci buggy. Miss Wylie, as she rolled oyei and over down th.© omba.nkinen't. pluckily kept the child, named Garlick, clasped ir her arms. The child*® leg was badly cut. It is a miracle that none were killed. DUNEDIN, January 20. William Graham, eight years old, was killed by a train at Green Island, on Sa turday night. Ho was playing on a_ viaduct and before he could get clear of the line the engine struck him. A man named Henry Pritchard war treated at the [Wellington Hospital on Saturday evening for a fracture of the shoulder caused through a fall on the footpath. He is now progressing favour elderly man named John McDonald Russell, a resident of Brooklyn, was re ported to the police authorities yesterday as Being missing from his home. Russell, who is a casual labourer on the wharf, has been in a poor state of health for some time past. At about 2 o'clock yesterday morning he arose from his bed on some pretext, telling his wife he would be back in a few minutes, but no trace was discovered of him until late yesterday after noon, when it was found that he had cut his throat, besides inflicting seriout injuries to his legs. He was at once conveyed to the hospital, and his condition last night was said to be very low in consequence of a great loss of blood.