ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 509, 17 May 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

* —„—- THROWN AGAINST A TOWING fIEAJI, A iqnn, named M/keod, employed on tho tug T«ra\vliiti, met with an accident while that rosso] Via towing th'o harquo Voathersfiolij to sea, Ho was thioirn against ono of the, tQwing beams, and sustained a plight injury to his (tend, EXPLOSION: OF UAS:. A 130Y KILLED; (BT TELEBUAf'H—J'KKSS ASSOCIATION.) Oprnaru, May 15. A boy named Thomas Cuff, aged U years, was accidentally killed by an explosion or acetylcno gas Unlay. Ho was. playing wjth other boyp.m the tout ocoupiou by Jones's Uuclrjumping Company, and stmck a umtoh to examine a tin containing dry carbide. An oxplosipn followed, and tho top of the tin was driven into his head, killing him instantanooußly. CONCERNING AN INFANT'S DEATH. (BT TII.EUItiI'n—PKESS 1SSO0IAT1ON.) Napier, May 15, An inquest was opened yesterday concerning tlio death of an infantjliscovorod in an outhouse at I'ort Aliuriri, The evidence showed that Lily Blown, living with > her pnionts lit tho Port, entered the. house in a etato of collapse, indications pointing to t her having (riven birth to a child. Search i was made and the body found. lifo being cx- , tjriot. Thh niorficnl evidence wont to show that tho child had breathed, though imperirotl.v, and that liad. it been born under pioper conditions it would probably lmvo lived. 'I'liq inquiry was'adjourned for three wocks, to cnabio tho girl to attend.