ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 885, 3 August 1910, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

; . : » . MAOKI CHIEF'S DEATH. (Br TelcEraDh—Press Association.) Dargaville, August A An inquest was hold at Kaihu on Saturday concerning the death of a Maori chief, MaruPapita. From the evidence lit appeared that deceased, who had been ill for a \veek or so, got up on Wednesday night and went to an adjoinng room for some medicine, ..but by mistake he drank from a -battle .containing spirits of salts, death ensuing on Thursday.. A verdict was returned. that deceased' died from the effects of. an irritant poison, but there, was no evidence to show how; that poison was administered. , CHILD KILLED BY A HORSE. . . Christchurch, August 2. .The two-year-old, son of A. w. Scarr, Jendnltou, was killed last night. He strayed from the .- house to ■ the road, where a horse was feeding. The animal suddenly- kicked out, hitting the child's head and fracturing the skull." . DKOWNEDIN A EACE. '. -Dunedin, August 2. Jessie Littlejohn, • the- eldest daughter of one of the- oldest settlers of', Waiwera, was found drowned in a water-race near her parents' house. . Indications point to , suicide: ■ 'Deceased was about fifty years of :age. She .had been nursing. a sister who : had been ill for soine time. MISHAP ON. THE QUAY. ■ Yesterday morning two men,' named Frederick Beetham and Arthur Sievers, were thrown out. of a trap through -a horse which ■ they' were driving along Lambton Quay, accidentally slipping. Sievers escaped with a shaking, but Beetham sustained a fractured collarbone. Dr. .Young attended to the injured man, who was afterwards taken to his home at Eoseneath.