ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2274, 7 October 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

LOST CHILD FOUND. Yesterday a telegram was received at local police headquarters from Constable. Lefevre, of Eketahuna, stating that the three and a half year old child, who had wandered away from a picnic party at Kakariki two days ago, had been found alivo and well. A LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH. A little girl named Zalio King, whose parents reside in Greytown, died while she was undergoing an operation in a private hospital in Roxburgh Street yesterday. Four doctors were present while the operation was being performed. An inquest will probably bo held. MAN REPORTED MISSING. It was reported last evening at Petone that a man named Mitchell has been missing since Sunday last, when ,it. is stated, he went out in an open boat. KICKED BY A TROOP HORSE. Whilst engagod amongst the horses at tho Hutt Park Camp yesterday, Farrier Wishworth sustained a kick on the bead. He was taken to the Hospital, where the wound was dressed, and was back at his work within a few hours. NURSE DROPS DEAD. ' ' (By TeloEra,ph-Pros3 Association.) Waimate, October 6. Miss Eleanor Douglas Grigor. employed as an emergency nurse at the Publio Hospital, dropped dead yesterday. At the inquest to-day the medical evidence disclosed that • deceased had a weak heart, a bilious attack causing rupture. DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER. Blenheim, Octobor 6. James Gane, for fifty years a settler at Wairau, died somewhat suddenly last evening, aged 72. He was a prominent figure in local politics, and for five years was chairman of the Spring Creek Road and River Boards. He was one of the founders of the A. and P. Association. WOMAN'S BODY FOUND. Auckland, October G. The dead body of a woman named Alice Litoff, aged between 30 and 35, was found in tho harbour this morning. It is understood sho was tho wife of a seafaring man.