ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13288, 17 May 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, May 16,

A message from Tauranga, states that when the steamer Waiotahi was entering the harbour last night a young man named John Maxwell became suddenly ill, and died before medical assistance could be summoned. A doctor subsequently examined the body and gave his opinion that, death was probably caused by a clot of blood finding its way to the brain. The body was taken-td Opotiki where the deceased's relations reside.

GORE, May 16,

A man named Arthur Lewis, was found dead at his residence, Brydone; Kdendale, yesterday. Lewis was a farmer, and was in partnership with a brother.

A BICYCLE-COLLISION.

The thick du.st raised on every road by the, strong southerly gusts last evening was responsible, for causing a. serious accident to a, woman who was cycling out of town towards Washdyke. At the foot of the hill next Washdyke, in the obscurity caused by a cloud of dust she ran into a man on the road, and was thrown. Falling heavily on her head, 1 she was so seriously injured as to be unconscious. Mr * Corbet* happened to come along on his motor car a few minutes after the. accident, and he brought her back to town, took her to NurseMorris's and fetched a doctor. The latter considered her condition somewhat, serious, her injuries apparently including a fracture : of the base of (the scull. Her husband was informed of the accident to Ids wife and fetched to see her. We were unable to ascertain the name of the victim of the accident. j