ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13996, 3 September 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

BR VKING A' MOTOR. KILLED ON THE SPOT. ' iriv-ss Assooialioii-By Telegraph-Copyright Received p;in., Sept. 2nd. :v LONDON,. Sept. 2. JiOi-d do Clifford suddenly; applied tho brake to his motor at Horsham to avoid collision \v,itli a cart. Owing to the suddenness of the stoppage the motor overturned, and Lord do Clifford was killed oil the spot. ■ ■

SUDDEN DEATH. Per Press Association. ■ GISBORNE, Sept. 2. Mr ; W. D. Leviek, chief clerk at the . local post office, died suddenly this • evening. lie was watching the Salvation i Ariny in the Street, when, ho 1 urclicd .and , 101 l heavily on to the side-walk, -expiring shortly after.' lie - w„as said: to be subject ,to heart disease,: v. Deceased was 54 years rof- age, arid canie. from the Thames in March of last year. He joined the Civil Service m the early seventies. He leaves a-: «idow and grown-up son • and • daughter.' / - RUN DOWN BY TRAIN. WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. '> ' A man named Harold Stautle or| Standall, about 45, years of age, Under- 1 Stood to bo aj resident-of Mar toil, waa J x found, on the railway line this evening, having been knocked down by a tram « ..Tho accident does . not seemtoliave been witnessed by anybody; < • The in« jured man is unconscious in the hospital. suffering from concussion'of the brain. There may be fracture'of the skull. •