ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1075, 14 March 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

CHILD'S CLOTHES CATCH FIRE. ■, ■ (By Telccraph!—Press Association.! Dannevirke, March 13. A little girl named Peters, a daughter of an employee at Glengarry Station, died in the hospital from burns received through her clothes catching fire on Saturday morning. Her case was hopeless from the first. At the inquest this morning, a verdict in accordan'co with tho medical testimony was returned. ■ ' FOUND IN A RIVER. Napiery! March 13. The body of a man was.found in the river at Petane this morning.,',",Nothing'is known as to identity. It had'been in tlio river eight or nine days. An inquest will bo held to-morrow afternoon. DRIVER-SERIOUSLY HURT. ■.> - ■...,..•, .....„.»......;„< Hawora,«March 13. Joseph Mossop, a coach-driver, was thrown, from a. four-horfc wagon on DawRsri'FAil?ifionfifaia*.frack on Eriday, evening; receiving serious injuries'to his head and face. He was rendered unconscious, and remained in the open all night. He was taken to the hospital suffering from concussion of the brain. FOUND DROWNED. . ~-' ::''t.::. Timaru.March 13. At the inquest on Charles Thomas Clements, whoso body was found on the rocks yesterday morning, an open , verdict was returned. .The evidence showed that deceased had been worried over business matters, quite unnecessarily. INQUEST AT UPPER HUTT. The Coroner (Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M.) concluded an inquest at the Upper Hutt yesterday, concerning the death of an elderly single woman, named Alice Mary Colpithes, who was found dead,in bed last Friday week. Medical cviilenco was given to the effect that death was caused by heaTt failure, and a verdict was returned accordingly.