MOTOR CAR FATALITY.
WOMAN KILLED IN WELLINGTON. By Telegraph—Proßa Association. \ WELLINGTON, Deo. 17. Mrs Kensington, wife of Mr W. C. Kensington, Secretary for Lands, was killed this eveuing by being run over by a motor oar at the foot of Bowen Street. Mrs Keneington, accompanied by her two daughters, the Misses Louisa and Ulive Kensington, had been into the oity during the afternoon, and the three were walking homewards along Larabton Quay shortly before 5 o'clock. When they reached Boweu Street crossing, a Fire' Brigade motor oar, driven by a man, named Spry, approached the same spot bound for the Botanical Gardens, where a Are had broken out. The oar passed right over Mrs Kensington, scattering her brains on the roadway. Miss Louisa was also thrown down, and was picked up with a oompound fraoture of the left leg. Miss Olive was uninjured. It is said that the motorman sounded bis alarm and swerved to avoid the ladles, but they became confused at the approach of the machine. Spry was previously engaged driving motors between Napier and l'aupo.
CABLE NEWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8314, 18 December 1906, Page 5
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183MOTOR CAR FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8314, 18 December 1906, Page 5
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