ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 657, 6 November 1909, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BURNED T0 ; DEATH. , ißy Telegraph—Press Association; > ' , Gisborno, November 5. ' ■ The woman burned to death last night wai - '67 : y«UM old. She was originally married''to' ; a man named Thompson/who was burned to • death at Te'lfaraka two years ago, upon the destruction of her whare. She afterwards Married a young man named Sarton, and on his 1 death took Wlloughby as her husband ir. May 'last. The marriage was strongly opposed by ■ her relatives, and an; unsuccessful. effort was 1 made to invoke the aid o£ the Native Land Court toVprevent the match; ; Tho woman pos-. , • sessed considerable property. WilloUghby, who . 1 is a prohibited person, was arrested at the fire ; on a charge of drunkonness. Ho was brought -. before the Court to-day and remanded till | Monday. ' ' |1 ' "WHILE BUSHFELLING." ' . ; ■ ■ Auckland, Novomber Ik .< ' A man named Georgo James Woodcock wan, ' killed while bushfelling at Whirinaki, • FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. , ' ' Chrlstchurch, November s. . ' The first'express from the south.to-night, 1 when approaching Islington, ran into a horse • • and trap. The driver, Sydney Charles Free, . 1 dentist, of Ohnstchurch, was killed. The ' othbr occupants wore thrown out. but not seriI oualy injured; The horse was killed. Neither, ' tlio driver nor the guard of the tram >*»w. the I ' ■ , Wannanul, November 6. A man named Alex. ll'Grcßor, a labourer, residing at Wangaohu, was killed by tho.goods, train at Wangaehu late to-night. Tho Iwdj ' was frightfully mangled.- > THROWN FROM A •BUGGY. _! '■■■■. Hokltika, November 5. Captain . Richards, Inspector, of ilinos foi' i Westl&nd, wlio ivris drivlng'.in tt buggy oil the • Arahura Road, about four miles from lloki- . tika,. Into thisVafternoon, was thrown out of ■ the vehiolo : when attempting. pass a railway ; ' crossing. Tho' whcol Striiro?. one of tie ' rails, and : the trap came t!£>a . sudden 6top, " precipitating liinl on .tb the ground-. Besides • receiving -trivial bruises, his ribs were but it is thought not seriously. Ho was other--1 wise very much shaken. ■ ~- ■ FOUND ON SEATOUN BEACH.' i - An inquest will bo hold at tho Morgue nl ) 11 o'clock this morning, touching tho . death of • r a woman namod Minnie Curratij agod i 5, who < , was found lying on the lwpioh, about 100 yardt 1 from tho wharf) at Soatian early - yosfadaj .' V morning, by Mossrs. Max-iKreisfiig and. Logan, b Deoeasetl had left the Tiorndon end of the . cit}' cn Thursday nftornCOn on a visit to a relativo in TuranaU StreoU She had not- dinco : " .boon hoard of. Itiß-staledthat-deceased Tint J becn-m indifforont health; for some timo ;■ |>atf [ " FIFTH OF NOVEMBER" MISHAP. J Guy. Fawkes Day Aid not pass away without' i' an accident. A boy of 14, named Harry.'Rabo, : I- -ot: Hornsey Roadj ■ Melroso, was - playing- wißi. -• cruckei'4: last evoning. when-one of thorn struck: - [; -him in tne oyos'i Thfl .lad was romovod'to thi ■; hospital just before ton o'clock.