ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 872, 19 July 1910, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUDDEN DEATH. •A labourer named Thomas Lane, 46' years of age, who had been; living with his family at 217 Taranaki Street, died suddenly yesterday at .7 a'.m. Lane had teen suffering for the past three years from an ulcerated stomach. Dr. Fell attended him up to five months ago, and later he was for two months an inmate of the hospital, but was'discharged. A post-mortem examination has been . -ordered, and an inquest will be held at the morgue to-day at 2 p.m.

ACCIDENT TO A CHILD. A child named Rita Farrell was admitted to the hospital last evening suffering from burns on the legs caused through an accident wliich happened at her parents' residence - in Charlton Avenue, off Tory_ Street. . TELEGRAPH LINEMAN'S FALL. • A young man named Thomas Jenkins, twenty-four years of- age, and employed by the Post and Telegraph Department a 9 a lineman, while working at the top of a telegraph pole in Featherston Street, yesterday morning • accidentally lost his balance,. and fell to the ground. Although .he landed on his . feet,. he nevertheless sustained rather severe injuries to his ankles, so much so that it was considered'advisable to 1 effect his removal to the hospital. ' . 1 A SUDDEN DEATH. A Maori . girl named , Mary Nini, 13 years of age, died suddenly at the Clyde, Court Private .Hotel at . four o'clock yesterday afternoon. Deceased had only arrived that day from the Wairarapa, and for some time past, had been suffering from rheumatic fever and a chest complaint. BOY TAKES HIS'LIFE. ■ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , Auckland, July 18. 1 Lindsay Tibbits,' aged 17, a son of G. Tibbits, committed suicide at Paparoa by shooting himself in the breast. A.t the inquest a verdict, of suicide while temporarily, insane: was. returned. . > THE TOLL OF THE BUSH. \ Auckland; July 18. A young man named Curtis was. killed whilst bushfeliing on Joseph Morton's farm, close to Ohakune.