Acciden at the Supreme Court.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1675, 1 July 1875, Page 2

Acciden at the Supreme Court.

r <& SEEiousccident happened this morning 0 Jietween tt and eleven o'clock to a lad named "Waam Giles, aged ten years, l*ho was wjtiDg upon his father, a plasterer, g j employed othe alterations at the Supreme SCourfc-housj The lad was on the second tier of Kffolding about twenty feet from, the ?round, and while his father \jras busy) t his work amused himself Sy playing jifch a rope in connection with a part of .theioaffolding, and losing hold, he Slipped sudcnly from his position and was precipitatedto a distance of about twenty1 feet on to tl path in front of the Court. His fall fortunfely was broken by the next tier of scjfolding, and partly by the Tope, or rlis supposed his fall would have been |itended with fatal results. A number [of i»rkmen witnessed the accident, and the laiJwas immediately lifted from his positiot apparently speechless, and was bleedii profusely from the ears and mouth^nd apparently had suffered Borne interj| shock. The men ran in different dictions for a medical man, and Dr. Ho(|r was at length found, who, having'exanjed the lad, ordered his removal to theospital. Captain Heale immediately sentiir a cab, and the patient, in company wi| his father, was conveyed thither. Upoßrrival fhere the house surgeon (Mr. Norton)|amined the lad carefully, but could not fiti any bones broken, or any symptoms of |ternal injury. He therefore advised the |l's father to take him home, which was ic&dingly done.