ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18916, 17 July 1923, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Peb United Peess ■ AUCKLAND, July 16. Harry England, farmer, of Matamata, waa killed on Saturday night. The dray he was driving overturned’ m the darkness and buried him under a load of hay. His wife, searching, found the overturned vehicle, and fell unconscious through shock. The husband’s body was not found until Sunday morning. Heather Andrews, a girl aged 30 months, was killed through being run over by a tramcar. The father of the deceased, Mr A. E. Andrews, resides in Remucra road. The child ran out of the gate alter her cousin, who was crossing the road. The motorman was unable to see her owing to a passing motor car. BLENHEIM, July 16. - shocking tragedy occurred at Spring Creek on Saturday night, when a wellknown farmer, George Henry Johnstone, residing Whittle’s Bend, was found shot on the Verandah of the house of -his , sister-in-law, Mrs Ada Redwood. Mrs John-' stone had been visiting her sister, and Johnstone went tp the house about 6.30 o’clock. He asked his wife io return home, b«t she did not do so. .she however, left Mrs Redwood’s house shortly after. Johnstone appears to have returned home, and at about 9.30 the inmates of Mrs Redwood’s house heard a noise on the verandah, arid discovered that Johnstone had shot himself through the chest, there being a huge wound under fhe heart. His condition was hopeless. He was admitted to the Wairau Hospital, where he died four or five hours later. • A man named John Campbell, single, aged 39 years, residing at 82 Moreau street, St. Kilda, was admitted to the Hospital last night suffering from injuries to the head, the result of a collision with a motor car in Princes street, opposite the Oval.