ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
INJURIES INFLICTED BY BULL. (By TelecraDh.—Press Association.) Dannevirko, September 11. At an inquest yesterday on Daniel Baine tho medical evidence showed that death was due to injuries inflicted by a "jull, two of the wounds alone- being sufficient to cause death. Tho jury returned a verdict accordingly. Deceased was an old ago pensioner. COLLAPSE OF A SCAFFOLDING. Wanganui, September 11. A serious accident occurred this afternoon on tho new convent buildings now in course of erection on St. John s Hill. Five men were working on the scaffolding a considerable height above • tho prround when tho structure collapsed. The men were precipitated to the earth, and all were more or less injured. Robert Rawston had his log* broken. FATAL FLANNELETTE^ Hawera, September 11. Lilian Harper, the eight-year-old child of William Harper, a settler at Mokoia, was admitted to tin hospital yesterday morning suffering from burns. The childhad got out of bed to put a piece of wood on the fire, -when her flannelette clothing caught fire. She died in tho evening from shock. . COLLISION WITH MOTOR-CAR, Auckland, September 11. James Devonport, aged 71, who was injured, presumably by a collision with a motor-car, on September 3,, died to-day. TWO SUDDEN DEATHS. Auckland, September 11. At 8 o'clock yesterday Alexander Nelson, aged 43, shift boss in the tunnel on the railway lino near Maungaturoto, was found (load in his bed at camp. In the afternoon tho body of Michael JFKenna, aged SG, a ganger on the line, was found in a paddock two hundred yards.from tho camp. FOUND DROWNED. Cliristchurch, September 11. At the inquest concerning tho death of Mrs. Andrew Todd a - verdict of found drowned was returned. The coroner said from what he knew of tho woman she was tho last person likely to tako her own life.
SUICIDE. Gisbornc, September 11. A young man named John Ilulino committed suicido by hangihg at tho Waipiro Hospital this morning.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1230, 12 September 1911, Page 6
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