ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 853, 27 June 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

> $ ; SCHOLAR FATALLY BURNED. 5 (By TckirraDh—Press Association.! I Dunsdin, Juno 25. Isabella Hughes, twelve years of age, j and a pupil at the Waitahuiia School, . died at 1 o'clock this morning as the , result of burns accidentally received . from a fire in the school fireplace on ) Thursday. LOCOMOTIVE DRIVER INJURED. Ashburton, Juno 25. '. The assistant driver of the Methvcn s branch train piet with' a nasty accident at Rakaia to-day, in which a locomotive badly crushed his foot. 1 SLIDING ON FROSTY GROUND. Ashburton, Juno 25. While sliding on frosty ground in the Longbc-ucli selioolgroiind yesterday, 1 a boy named Ernest Cobdcu" Toll and broke his left arm, just abovo the wrist. RUN OVER BY A CYCLE. A six-year-old girl, named Marjorio Dixon, was run over by a bicycle in Vivian Street on Saturday afternoon. It appears that, as she ran off tho D footpath, she was knocked down, both wheels of the bicycle passing over her. ' The rider, Jolm Ferguson, was thrown '' over the handle-bars of his machine, j but escaped with a shaking. The little ■' girl, however, sustained a fractured ' leg. She was attended by Dr. Shand. i INJURY AT FOOTBALL. During the progress of the PetoneMelrose match at Hutt last Saturday, > L. Druminond, one of the Petone forwards, had tho misfortune to break his collarbone. In deciding to order a iipu- liner to take her plate with the and the llaiiretauia, tho Cunard directors, it is said, have in view the possibility of oil fuel. It is estimated by experts on the subject that the use of oil would save at least JH2OO on each round I rip be-in-DC-n Liverpool and Now York. Not only would Ihe wages in Hie slokehold be t considerably reduced, for fewer iirenicn 1 would bo necessary, bill the space occupied by the coal bunkers could be utilised , lor cargo, while there also would be more mom for passengers. Indeed, a re- * volulioii in shipping is conlideiilly prot dieted with the use of oil. When clock • and Ilavbour authorities ijill inlo Hue and s provide adequate facilities for the stor- - age of oil, there will be nothing in || lc . t way of its widespread adoption. M. Paulhan and If. Bleriot may with -xaro reason claim lo have abolished the Channel and, indeed, all frontier Uvr>. v Customhouse officers will («iy S "The Times") Ik , powerless to prevent smuggling, at all ovcitls on a limited scale. - For, Children's ITiickinfr Cough at night, a Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, In, Cd., 2s. Cd.-Advt.