ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1016, 4 January 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

GIRL-SERIOUSLY W.OUNDED. ' (By Tclenraph.—Soocial CorreeaondcaU Palmerston, January 3. A very sad shooting accident happened, at Sandori on Saturday afternoon. A littlo girl, named Thompson, -whose parents reside at Folding, was spending a holiday at Sandon, and it appears that whilo a bystander was handling' a revolver it went off at half-cock. The bullet penetrated the lungs, and lodged in the back bshVeen the ribs. The child was at once brought to the Palmerston Hospital, where the bullet was extracted. She is' in a precarious condition, but is doing as well as can be expected. ""

YOUNG LADY'S SAD END. Wanganui, January 3.Gloom was cast over the holidays by the death by drowning of Hiss' Rebecca Irvine, third daughter of Captain Irvine, retiring pilot, on Sunday night. She walked out on the mole of the north breakwater, to got the air, and that was the'last seen, of the unfortunate .young lady, whose body was found next day in the" river. Several wounds about the head indicated that she must have missed her footing in the darkness, and fallen to the rocks below, and being rendered unconscious, rolled into the water. A sad circumstance, is that Captain Irvine had only the previous day handed over the pilotship to his successor, and tho- first day of his well-earned retirement was clouded by tho death of his daughter, whose sad end has evoked widespread sympathy. • At the inquest this morning a verdict was returned that deceased met her death by falling oft' the breakwater. TRAP CAPSIZES. Wanganui, January 3. Mrs. G. N. Baggett, wife of a. wellknown stock agent, was driving a Darty on St.. John's Hill on .Sunday, when, the trap was overturned. All the party were thrown our, receiving a severe shaking, and Mrs. Raggett's little son sustained a fractured skull and is' in a rather serious condition. TRAP ACCIDENT. (By Tclcgrai)h-Prcss Association.) Greymouth, January 3. 8011, the victim of a trap accident on Friday last, died this morning. SUDDEN-DEATH. Christchurch, January -3. Richard Blackburn, aged 52, died suddenly yesterday of heart disease. LI'OTLE BOY FATALLY CRUSHED.' Ui.v Tclcgraph-Press Association.) Dunedin, January 3. A boy named John Perkins, under four vcars of age, was badly crushed bv a tog rolling on him at limit Road, Catlins district, on December 2G. He succumbed to his injuries this morning.