ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9954, 16 September 1910, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[From Our Corkespondext. ; WAIMATE, September 16. About 4.45 yesterday afternoon Miss Bertha Jane Hindi, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hindi, Hannaton, nineteen years of age, met Jier death through being thrown from a bolting horse. It appears that the young lady, who had been at a ploughing match, left the- ground so6n after four in company with a Waimato young man named Colin Cameron. She had a bicycle and he had a horse. When on the main Nukuroa Road, near Cunningham's the young people exchanged mounts, the lady getting up and sitting side-saddle on the horse. The animal took alarm and bolted. Not having a secure hold, the rider was thrown violently to the ground, her neck being broken. [Pjsk Prkss Association-.] AUCKLAND, September IG. A. R. Tyler, a married man resident in Ponsonby, is in the Hospital in a critical condition, the result of an overdose of chlorodyiie. A married woman named Margaret Dear is in the Hospital from the effects of drinking lysol in mistake for castor oil. GISBORNE, September 16. A man named Billepp, a cook on the schooner Awanui, whilst shifting a pea rifle, and not knowm..; that it was loaded, accidentally discharged it and received its contents in the groin. Ho was removed to the Hospital. ASHBUHTON, September 16.

Driving home from Ashburton to Ashton last evening. William Taylor was thrown from a gig, and sustained a. broken leg. He was taken to the hospital, and is now progressing favourably. A similar accident happened earlier in the evening to William Nevins. His horse swerved, and he was thrown from a gig,' ■ which fell on him. At the hospital it was found that his injuries were confined to abrasions.