ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 527, 7 June 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BROKEN ABM AT RUGBY.,. ' (BY TELEQEAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' ' Auckland, Juno 5. A Grammar School boy, named Laxon, had hia arm. broken to-day whilo playing in tho secondary school Rugby competition. ..-.-•'■• A SHOCKING ACCIDENT. ■ Christchurch, Juno 6. ; 1 At Rangiora this afternoon an unmarried middle-aged man named l r rank Coates met with an, accident which proved fatal., Ho was. lopping a pino tree about twenty-five feet from tho ground,: when a gust of wind unexpectedly broke tho top, and ho fell beneath it. '■': Tho foot of tho treo fell on-his thigh,' smashing: his leg from the groin to the knoe.' Doctors; attended him- and amputated the leg:. V ■'■ '.'■'■' - ,-' DEATH OF AN INFANT. . ''■:..:. ~'. ■■" •■ Napier, June 5. At the adjourned • inquest ..concerning the death of tho child of Lily Brown/the jury returned the following verdict:—"That the child died from exposure and neglect caused through ignorance, and the -final total collapse, physically/ of the mother of the ciii»d at the time.-of its birth."

PERISHED ON THE HlLLS. '■'■'■, /■■'■/"■•'. ' Christohurch, Juno C. A man named- John Ernest Woodrough, 'who was found in a dying condition on tho top of the Port Hills yesterday afternoon, succumbed shortly afterwards! Ho. had set out earlier in the day to walk over; the hills. AN OLD WOMAN'S DEATH. ; (HI TELEOBATH—rBBSS ASSOCIATION.) Christohurch, June 6. An old' lady, named Mrs. Harriett Cook, died to-day from injuries receivedhy falling off a tram-car in Forry Koad on Juno 3. Doceased alighted before'the car stopped.