ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8769, 22 March 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press Association. Ddxedin, March 21. Particulars show that Mr Sandilauds was returning to Balchitha from a visit to Kaitangata in a single buggy with hi 3 wife and child of twenty months, when the vehicle fell .over a steep bank on a narrow road into the riv*!i' and the three wore drowaed. The mishap w'as witnessed by Mrs Morrison, music teacher, who was riding on horseback. Dragging has been continued without success, but the horse is alive and the buggy was. rescued. In the buggy wero found two bottles of whisky in a brown paper parcel. Tho couple were- aged about 35 and had been a year in Balchitha. The Star's Balelutha correspondent wires that the supposition is that the driver was intoxicated and trap backed over tie bank thp occupants being pitched out into the sti-ea;:;, y/hich there is swift and deep. SiindiUinchi was unfortunately addicted to drink. Gishoiwi:, Mr.rcL 11. Mr Sharp, a traveller for the Phceuix Co., died in the Hospital to-night from fracture of the skull through a collision between a horse ho was -riding and a horse and buggy. jN'o further particulars wore obtainable to-night. Mamtkkto:.", March 21. News has been received here that a man, name unknown, committed suicide- to-day at-Tikita-pu .station. iKyiSKCAr.Gii/T,, March 21. An unknown man, about 70 years, fell amongst milk cans on the railway station this morning. He wm picked up, but died before a doctor arrived, Deceased held a ticket for Fairfax.