ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13907, 19 May 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

fe?* Per Press Association. m NELSON, May IS. Kjj| The Canadian canoe in which the grig missing camping party at ltabbit lsWg land, Mr G. W. Lighthaud, of lirightfffi water, and Mr H. 1). JacKson, son ot SJIr Ralph Jackson, of Nelson, set out =3*s, a fortnight ago, was found washed up §2 at Farewell Spit. All hope that they §are alive has now been abandoned. A young man named Wood,, son of aMr Wood, of Timaru, received a very SSnastv kick from a horse at Otaio on last, when taking a cover oil' (j?* it. The injure*' man was taken to the r& hospital at Waimate, where I)r Bar,.*s clav attended to him. ■?■*■, Detective McLeod had a rather sev- & ere spill from his cycle yesterday afterS~jioon whilst riding "across the intersecK tion of Stafford anil Strathallan «•' streets, for in endeavouring to avoid *?S a horsed conveyance that was on its *? wrong side, he was almost forced into Sthe side channel sustaining in conseEjquenee a nasty fall. ■fcs? Whilst fixing up the tackle for workSfjing cargo on board the s.s. Elsa yesBwterday one of the sailormen was un|&lucky enough to get stretched on the ffideck through a chain striking him on

the head. No damage was done, however, r-nd after rubbing the back.of his -head and repeating a few pregnant sentences in Norwegian, the man went on with his work, A sudden death, the cause of whicli is supposed to be heart failure, consequent upou unusual exertion, took place in Geraldiue on Monday afternoon, when a married woman,' the wife of Mr J. Burnham, junr., a labourer, was found dead upon the floor of her house by a neighbour. Deceased had been busy all day laying linoleum, and it is supposed that she over-exerted herself.