ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12775, 20 October 1919, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR

A young man, named Clarence Rainier, a resident of Upper Riccarton was admitted to tho Hospital Into last evening. Rainier, who was knocked down by a motor-car at Cook and Ross’s corner about a quarter to eleven o’clock, sustained abrasions to the head and face. Ho was reported to-da-v to be also suffering from shock. MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED. Falconer John Macdonald, forty-two years of ago, was accidentally killed at 10 a.m. yesterday through beiW thrown from the side-chair of a rnotor-cvclo between Robinson’s and Takamatua Bay on Banks Peninsula. Macdonald was a clerk by occupation and resided in Fictou. A LABOURER’S DEATH The police received a telephone message last night that a labourer named Owen C a!lan, a married man, residing nt Tai Tapu, bad cut his throat. A constable was sent out. but when he arrived, at about midnight, Callan was dead. The body was to bo brought to the Alorgne in Christchurch, and an inquest will be held to-day.

A CHILD’S DEATH. [Per Press Association.] TAUMARUNUI, October 20. Yesterday morning the bodv of th*> missing boy. Ernest Brightwell, was found by William Moares about a quarter of a mile below the confluence of the Wanganui and Ongaruhe Rivers. At an inquest held last night the Coroner returned an open verdict of “found drowned.”

(A message from Tnumanmui on Wednesday stated;—A seven-year-old bov named Brightwell was reported missing last night. He was last seen in the afternoon going to his home across the Wanganui River. The boy had to cross on a swing bridge to Winter’s Island, and by Sinclair’s bridge from the island to the other side of the river, A parcel carried by the boy was found to-day on the island, but there was no further trace of him. The police are making a search.)