ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16713, 20 April 1922, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

FOUND DEAD. The police authorities in Christchurch have been informed that Kenneth Mackay, labourer, sixty-five years of age, was found dead in his whare Air E. Parsons’ farm, Kaikoura, oi which he was employed. It is believed that death was due to natural causes. CHILD INJURED. On Wednesday, on their way home from school, three children were going hand in hand down Cockbura’s Cutting, Oxford, with a strong northwester behind them. The teacher, who was riding a bicycle called out to them. They separated, but. one of them, Nancy Doody, aged six years, got in the way of the bicycle and was struck it. She was seriously hurt, and as there was no doctor available, Alessrs Brown and A. Stubbs conveyed her by car to Rangiora. She was attended to by Dr Will, who found she was suffering from a badly broken collarbone, severe bruises to bead and body and slight concussion. After attending to her he ordered her removal to the Christchurch Hospital. Latest reports indicate an improvement in her conditionFALL OFF A TRAIN. (Per Press Association.'i DUNEDIN, April 20. John M’Leod, a middle-aged man, was found early this morning in the railway yards. Ho was removed to the hospital in a serious condition. Apparently he fell off a train. GIRL CYCLIST KILLED. AUCKLAND, April 19. Lizzie Agnes Ford, aged seventeen, while cycling across the Mangere bridge collided with a motor, receiving head injuries. She died in the hospital forty minutes after admittance. Her parents reside at Alangere. KNOCKED DOWN BY A HORSE, Airs Alary Elizabeth Simpson, aged fifty-six, was knocked down by a bolting horse in the main street of Pukekobo, and died an hour later. Her husband, Frank Simpson, has been an invalid for two years. KILLED BY COLLAPSE OF BRIDGE. INVERCARGILL, April 19. A man named Peter Charles Connell, aged twenty-three, fireman of a locomotive for "the Otautau Timber Company’, was killed to-day through the collapse of a bridge on a bush tramway during the passage of the engine. Two other men on the engine at the time escaped with slight injuries.