ACCIDENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14156, 19 April 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

ACCIDENTS.

(From "The' Colonist," March 23.) A boy named Jack MeDougail, aged J>£ years, was knocked down by a youthful* cycli&b in Hardy street on Tuesday morning, and received injuries to the faoo and head. He was attended by Dr Washbourn. The boy was reported tc. bo somewhat better last night, though his condition was causing a littio anxiwty' * March, 24. A collision occurred in the thoroughfare leading to the wharf, between the, Union Steam Ship Company's office and the Custom House Hotel, yesterday morning, Mr. \V. Devetrish, Collector <;■? Customs, who was cycling, being imorked down by a motor car driven by Mr. Walter Thorn, of Richmond. Fortunately the car ".vas being •driven very slowly, and iv avoiding a car whi°h was standing outside the Union Company's office, the accident occurred. Mr. Devenish was rather severely shaken, but was oi.honvjso unhurt:, liotii car find cyclist were on their proper sido of the road going in, the sar; >> direction, Mr. Thorn having! come in from the country and turned! into tlio read leading to the wlfarf, and Mr. Deveiiish having crossed over from i the othej- Hide oi" th:> street. AL-.-r-K 27. A fifteen rronths f>id s'»n of Mr, ami. Mrs. Henry Ksin-'py, of Kainiuim, w:>s; drowned in prs-uliar cii'dimstrinces List' week. The i'hi!d iws-being taken by. ihs father iron (''■•Viuys.wond fo.Boiinvj Poon. Aftpr kaving fchn mail cirt i:i: v/hieh they trav<.-l'.'.<d and crossing, -i small plank brid'/~- over n creek, the father laid tim cl-iiil, vv-'lio■ hatj tmnc; tosleep, on the bank li'.:r st. time. oj\ returning lie' found fci;*l :!-o;i,f! hndy ir, < the creek, attached to a stninv, bend downwards. ' ,\prrl, '\ ; Two accidents O'^'irrod >nt TadnK)r ( early on Friday mnrning- A party was returning to the Sherry from a danefir at Kiwi wlien tho trap capsized over a bank on the old road near tho Tadmor \

school. The occupants received a severe shaking, and Miss Arnold, of , Spring €trove, had her arm brokon in ' three .places. Th©'horses attached w» tho trap afterwiai-ds bolted up tho Sherry hill and collided with a sulky, with, the result, that the occupants were injured. Miss F. Hanger had ncr wrist dislocated, and Miiss M. Riokctts sustained concussion of the brain. Dr. H. Pearless was summoned, and proceeded to Tadmor,- where the injured p-orsons were attended to. Dr. Fearless on returning 'brottght Miss Arnold to her home in Spring Grove. April, 10. Yesterday afternoon an accident happened on the Stanley Brook hills to a car driven by Mr. F. Talbot, oKMotueka, who had with him Constable PicJgeon, of Motuoka. In turning one of the short bends on the road the wheels became locked and the car overturned, throwing Constable Pidgeou clear but pinning the driver down. The former escaped with a- shaking'""and the latter was fortunate to sustain little more than a few bruises. Tho car was slightly da-inaged. Willing soldiers in motor cars went to the scene of tho accident, and the car was again brought to the road. It appears that Constable Pulgoon was on nn errand to capture a motor cycle that had beei: taken from Motuoka belonging to Mr Talbot. ihe person a* ho is alleged to have purloined tho bicycle was captured after tho accident, he being in the act of returning by the road he came. Rfc was afterwards taken on to Motuokiv. It is reported that certain defacements were niado to tho motor cycle in an attempt *> disguise it. Apr . if 13 A five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jordan, of Stanley Brook, met with an accident on Monday afternoon. | He was sitting on a fence watching the (working of a traction engine and fell off, badly bending the right fore arm. A message to the camp at Tapaworft secured the willing services of SurgoonCaptain Inglis, who attended the case, and straightened the arm.

Ati extraordinary accident happened to Messrs. Brownleo and Co.'s motor lorry on Friday evening, resulting in a capsize over a bank (says the "Pelorus Guardian"), The lorrx, driven by Mr. Hutchinson, was en route to Deep Creek from Have Jock, and when near Ward's mill an unattached harnessed horse was met. The horse became restive on Hearing the lorry, and the driver pulled up near the inner bank of the road to allow it to get clear, but by some means the loose harness caught on to the rear oJ the lorry, and the horse, becoming more frightened, performed the -remarkable feat of pulling the lorry, driver and all, over the six-foot bank, *?nd going over with it. Fortunately, no serious damage resulted to either van, driver or horse, and early the same evening the lorry was hauled up again on to the road and brought into Havelock.