ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES*

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 706, 4 January 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES*

' CHILD DKOWNEI)., (By Telezrann.—Press \ Dannovrlke, January 3. , On Friday afternoon the 3J-year-o,ldgony L of Matheiv Price, hvmg at Tiratu, waa drowned in the Manawatu River. The ' child was taken across the river to lite grandmother, while his mother came mto * , Ilannovirke. ,It is presumed he wandered to the mor'intending to raturn home. The body was reco\ered early on Sunday ' morning a httlo below the point whore- * fhe accident is supposed ito hare oo curred. » *' ] HEMOEEHAGE. Dunedin, January 3. Jane Anderson, wife of Frank Andcr* . - son, builder, of Mornington, died eud» i denly from hemorrhage of tho brain. * A CHILD ( BUENED TO DEATH. , - Auckland, January 3. A sixteen, months old child named. Th«kna. Mary Short, daughter of Mr. John Short, of Awhitu, was burned to > death this morning.

JOCKEY INJUEED. j i Palmerston North, January 3. i F. Whitehouse, who was injured when! Arcadia fell with him in the hmdles at j the Bulls races to-day, Jβ lying in-& en-) -i heal condition at tho hospital. (Hβ let still unconscious. pi, i/# I BATHING FATALITY. \ : - ' Dunedin,' January I A young man named Paterson vraaj ~\ drowned while bathing an the Shag Elver. ] near Palmerston, yesterday morning. De- /» ceased had been visiting, the district* The body was recovered. , ' IN A NAEEOW EOAi). "^ Dunedin, 'January 3. r J i'j Eobort Eankin, manager of a farm (A ~ j Wairanga, nas killed on tho Brighton, > Road yesterday owing to the wheel of his gig going over a , bank while attempting to pass a landau. Deceased was a singlo j man, aged 28 years. j; SUICIDES. / N Wairoa, January 3. A half-casto committed suicide in Nu*i haka yesterday by hanging hinisetf to a. ' manuka tree. " Dunedin, January 3. Christina Clements Taylor, a married , woman, \\ho had been suffering from ner> vous breakdown, hanged herself at n«m.t on Saturda) at Alexandra South. BODY FOUND ON A BEACH. < ' ; Dunodin, January 2. On Friday last a man named JohBL ~ M'Crone, a resident of Green Island, left , ,-. his homo to go fishing. Ho did not return that evening, and a search party on , i Saturday morning found his body on, v • Green Island beach, where it had appar. \ ently been washed by the sea. Deceased, was 3G years of age and married. v V«; WELLINGTON CITIZEN DEOWNED. On Monday evening of last week, Mr. Sebastian Utt, of Wellington, waa' ' , drowned while bathing m thoManawatu Eiver, at Foxton. At tho inquest on Tuesday afternoon, Georgo MaiJey, gas -, engineer, stated that he and witness went 1 to bathe on the Houdaj evening. On entenng tho wai-r they both struck out in the mer. When Marley was about halfw a> across he looked behind, and saiv deceased tun.ovei on his back. Ho -v .(deceased):seemed to get : ;a; ; mouthiul r ot; ;; -, s f ; : water, v and , witneavsang. pu't;;for/ ten-quiet as he swam: towards ;him<(ae-g;;,-;.<k ie'ea^d);; Wheii- ten yards ::awayMleceased:gi;s)s ;sankv iiid':did .-'ndt ; the spot ; and■ hailed, a?: ■ the:body -did-Jiot■ riso>t"all; ;S Tw■ ;rec6vercd/:with- a^drag;. ; 'inoTning.w-:;.:y:" i v:;.'..';;"-; : •.'/;•;:. o^":&--j^;v?>f•^'pvS'Sv M Two" r members": of- ; the ; ' : ' Challenger, •: Charles Cliston,.) ablji,;6eamiui,,j S !vV-; Sged 25/ and; Herbert :Sydney,; bed -'steward, T'aged 57,.; were -.admitted. ■; to: 3 j: ;.;* ■the' Hospital/soon after::the:warshipKar-ivyj*g rived" from Cliston. is-suffering from :Darch v has ;to;,undergp;/an:: operation^as:^