ACCIDENTS ANP FATALITIES

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13431, 23 March 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS ANP FATALITIES

(Per Press Association.GISBORNE, March 22. ' A verdict ojf accidental death, no blame being attachable to anyone, was returned in regard to tho death of Andrew Sharp,. traveller for the Phoeriix Biscuit and Confectionery Co. The ovidence showed that he was an abstainer from liquor, that the hoi;se, got beyond h is ; control as soon as tic had got into the saddle at Bfuce's store at Waiohika, and that in overtaking a buggy, it swerved. v djslodging tho rider, who apparently struck tho buggy wjeel as he fell. ; *\ CHRISTCHURCH, March 22. ,'Aii eight-year boy named Frederick Gourlay was run into by a motorcyclist on the New Brighton Beach 'this I afternoon, and sustained .injuries from which he died shortly afterwards. fthe cyclist, William Moorhouse, was practising for the motor races, which" aro to be held on the beach to-morrow afternoon, and was travelling at a fast pace, when the boy ran across the track. '-.He was knocked along a distance of about ten yards, during which he haft three rjbs broken and a knee splintered, besides sustaining other injuries. .^ INVERCARGILL, March 22. The real> name of,, the man who dropped dead at the railway station is Wm. Panton-McClure, It is believed heha? relatives at Timaru. He has been known locally as Wm. ; Carter. ''"