ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 938, 4 October 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

-;■; CHILD DEOWNED-m v ■ ;," (By. Telegrapli.^Press^Asspqiatloii.);.;; • ''-.'■'.' ■ , ; -f /.Auckland, October-3. '■'[■ ■ 'A -drowning' accident occurred at Rich-; mond,, Grey Lynn, yesterday . afternconj; ; the victim :.-being Marjorie, Elliott, the eighteen-months-old:' daughter' of Edmund Elliptt, fellmongef. "child had;been, .'playing round.iitsnibtKer's. knee.,during the afternoon until about d._4s' p.mi, -, when Mrs* Elliott; was "called' inside f or. a cfew 1 minutes. She left the child playing, about,-, but, on/ returning./after [&■ brief absence. i'she ■ was "as toriished; to. see',that.'. the i] little■ one' had disappeared. -,"A-search -was ;at once made,".and, thirty yards 'away the child 1 was founcl lying dead' at the bot-tom-'of a'.'ditch:about, four ' or .five: feet ; deep, .containing several; inches"of water.. It., appears v that, the -.' child in ■;' .running about/tumbled; into' .the, ditch;.and..;.was ; drowned.,.'-'.'■;:'.- t .--;■ l- ; \ : •■ «'<■:''- \^-■■;':■■<'■• : - : -KHawDra, October : : 3;'- : v= :•'-Fred , 'Mason, 'a , 'la'd .of-.:ll,',years, J !son."of. a teacher at <:Pihama, .was accidentally killed: on :Sunday,;by ; .a fall,from ;a : tree; ,; ', -'A-FLANNELETTE..NIGHTDRESS;£'. • ■:V;-:'^ : ;;'w .'■;;;■ Nelson, October: 3;.-;/• ■ .At Neudorf on Saturday, Mrs.; Katheri'lie Gerrish, 'wife of Mr. -Edward Geriish; "died.as tho'.fesult;of-.burns.-from : a : flan-, I ;nelette nightdress.'' On Friday night she ; -was'sittingjbyaifire;inler bedroom.- Her husband was awakened: by screams; -and found his :wife;:eiivelpf)ed. in flames. ;; . Ee:medies;> were; applied in, vain, 1 and'death ■ oceurredsorae hours later;,. At an ; inquest, ja verdict of death from' misadventure .was :returned.-. :'r. ".■*..',"■■'.':, •'. '•" ■ -: : .: "• ■■■'■; ;; -;;

};-,', HIS JCOFFIN'READY"MADE/';;.;';'; ;.;,'": \'^; :, /;" Aucklaiid,! October; 3;-" ;;'';Thomas'.William Mann, aged 78, ,'an' old age pensioner, vwas, found'dead -in, bed'at his house, Matakana,; He.had; been;in',illhealth fbr;:So.mo : :time.; : He' had slept with a. ready-made ■ coffin, over his: bunk; and ■■made-i'nis-.'-own','::' arrangements; for ;.his "burial. ■/ '-'■'<-■;{ •'.,;'/: ,';'■'...'!.';' •'■''■'"' ',':',: ; \ v'ii inquest ;' 7'--: :; "' : '' : ;^'-/-,;.':' .O'ctoblr^S. 1 . . The adjourned .inquest' on i a ibody;bf -a inewly-bbra. child,,alleged;to-be'-the -off-, spring '[ of ; Maria Mooney, single,,.aged ;iwenty-six -yeareV-concluded to-day.." J .The jury's verdict; was: '"ThatMttria Mooney is the: mother .of the ■ jllegitimate,' child' which is the subject of this inquest;' but '■that. there is not sufficient medical '.evidence Ho prove'whether the ;child 'was ■born dead;.or ; ':'.■ r y. ! <-.)\' f ;;' : - A railway passenger who lent his; ticket : to' another, so that the latter, couldi pass as .a first-ilass! passenger,'"-'found himself : in'.,the Auckland, Police Court on;'Satur- - day (\vrites - correspondent)." -Harry AVilJiams. pleaded' a charge.; of having transferred a, railway, ticket whichhad been used for partof the journey .for which, it had' been 1 issued. ~■ The ticket was -his. own , ,;',andVthe offence . consisted ■in'his lending it t'o-a second-class passenger who was travelling -with him- in a> first.class;'carriage, .to. enable ' the; latter,.- to escape:,,payment. ;.of; ■ the ; difference; 'in fares. He was fined £1 and costs, 195., ; .

.Two farms of rich, land are advertised for sole in' this ifisuc by Messrs. J. A.,Naeh ,and Co., Palmerston North.-; ■■'■.. ■'..■','-.• :

The annual meeting of • the Wellington" ThilosPphical .Society will be held in- the Dominion■ Museum .on Wednesday ■ next, .October 5, at 8 p.m. '•,...,; : .. ;:.

Cholera is rapidly'Bpreadingin.the villages of-Russia.' .In some jcentres the: ;mortali(y.is nearly .50 per cent." The ignorance of the peasants,, and 'the'lack of medical and .sanitary, organisation; make the task of. coping with' the epidemic well-night desperate.;. ■'" -. . , '•'.;.; ■'..

Field., BTirgeons mounted: upon, motortricycles are a.'feature of this year's German - manoeuvres'.-; Each surgeonVcarries: with; him all the. material necessary for first aid, and. can; when necessary, convey a wounded man to hospital.