ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A FATAL.FIND. . ' (By Telesraph.—Prc.33 Association.) Auckland, October 8. A boy named Solan Arthur, two years old. who found .a bottle of poison and drank a quantity,' died in the Hoe< pital this morning. SERIOUS TRAP ACCIDENT. , , Hastings, Ootober 8, Mrs. Webb, wife of Richard 'Webb, storekeeper, of Mahora South, was thrown out of ; a trap to-day through the, horse taking fright at a traction engine in Heretaunga Street. Tho accident was attended by fracture oMha , skull, and the condition of the patient is serious.

I | Captain Taylor, representing Lloyd's I in Australasia, left Dunedin for Sydney en route to Brisbane by the Victoria last evening. Mr. T. Brown, of Christchurch, arrived in Wellington from Sydney by tha Tahiti yesterday. Mr. R. W. Smith, M.P. for Waimarino, and Mr. T. H. Davey, M.P. for Christchurch East, left Wellington for the south by the Waliine last evening. Mr. W. M'Lean, secretary of the Wellington Opera House Company, who, has been on a business visit to Sydney, in connection with tho Grand Opera Houso, returned here by tho Tahiti yesterday. Tho Hon. J. Barr left Lyttelton for Wellington by the Mararoa last evening. Captain Pearoe. editor of tho "Pastorahsts' Review," who has been touring Canada and the United States, ia returning to Sydnoy by tho Mararaa, which left Vancouver for Australia last week. Mfl A. S. Legh, who has for twelva , yoars acted as travelling representative in Now South Wales for the Dunlop Rubber Company, has been appointed to manage that company's Now \Zoaland business at Christchurch. Mr. Georgo MacMorran, headmaster of the Terrace School, has been nominated by the South Canterbury Teachers' Institute for tho position of president of tho Now Zealand Educational Institute. Dr. Martin, of Dunedin, and Mrs. Martin were passengers by the Warrimoo, which- arrived from Sydney yesterday morning. Mr. A., S. Malcolm, member for' Cliutha, left for the south last, night ia response to a hurried call on .account of illness in liis family. Mr. J. Payno gave notico of a ques- . tiom in the House of Representatives yesterday, asking the Primo _ Minister whether he would this session introduce > legislation to allow the registration of! thoso unregistered nurses who were l entitled to register in 1901, but who; failed to do so owing to various circumstances. The Prime Minister is to bo asked' by tho Hon. J. A. Millar whether lie will obtain from the r Public Service' Commissioners a definite pronouncement of their policy in regard to members. of tho Public Servico or their ] wives engaging in any business. : Tho master of tho schooner Annia Hill, now loading at Kaipara, Captain Mahon, reports having witnessed ani unusual sight during his passage from Lyttelton (writes tho Dargaviilo correspondent of tho "New Zealand Herald"),. When some thirty-fivo miles off Manu- , kaw, in fine, cloudy weather, with _ a smooth sea, ho obsorvpd half a. mile ; away from his vessel a- serious marine disturbance, which he at first took_ fop j 'a volcanic upheaval. Tho sea rose in a, j great mass and was joined by a spiral' 'j from tho clouds, a waterspout oventuat-, ; ing. This was followed by another r.ndi similar phenomenon.- Forked lightning, ; played round tho two columns, and Cap- | tain Mahon lost no time in altering his vessel's courso and sailing away from tho dangerous zono of disturbance.