AUCKLAND.
February 18. A painful accident has occurred at Tohatoba (Northern Wairoa). It appears that a number of telegraph poles were stacked on the top of an embankment parallel with the public road. Five children were playing round the poles; two were eeated under the bank, and the other three were running round, when one of them stumbled against the poles. The outside pole turned over and dropped down the bank, striking one of the children aad hurting her back, and instantly killing the other, a fine little girl three years old, the daughter of Mr Saunders. At the inqueet the jury expressed their opinion that the Government were to blame for the carelese manner in which the telegraph polee were stacked. Had the poles been on an end to the bank all would have been well.
There are twelve cases of typhoid fever ai d one of scarlet fever in the Auckland Hospital.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3011, 18 February 1881, Page 3
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154AUCKLAND. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3011, 18 February 1881, Page 3
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