A BOY ELECTROCUTED.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14972, 20 May 1914, Page 10

A BOY ELECTROCUTED.

(press association telegram.) ' STRATFORD, May 19. The heavy wind yesterday dislodged an electric light wire; which hung afew feet from tho ground. When the linesman went to repair it, he found the dead body of a boy named Henry WebberJ.v, nine and a-half years old, with hie hands grasping the wire. Death must have been instantaneous.

iA man named Miller was thrown on tho road in Cooksoir etreet, Kaiapoi, yesterday, from a waggon, tho two horses of which had bolted, and was picked up with a bad cut on his nose and a severe wound on one of his eyes. He was conveyed to the Nursing Homo. The horses were stopped before any other damage was done. '

Messrs Frank Twomey, E. Finlan 1 , D. Burke, W. Anderson, and D. Scott, Temuka whilst returning home in a motor-car from a Rugby Union enquiry in Timaru, nearly mot with serious injury. Tho car skidded, and the.brake being applied,- the car turned over on its side, somersaulted bark on to its wheels, and .turned faco about.-As the< machine was travelling very fast at the time, serious'injury'to tho occupants would appear to have been inevitable. However, all were thrown clear, and although bruised and shaken, none was otherwise injured.