ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

REMARKABLE ESCAPE. .(BT TELEGnAI'H— PRESS ASSOCIATION,) WAIHI, 6th February. The eldest boy (about ten years) of Mrs. -Parker, of Wrigley-street, had a remarkable escape from serious accident. He was hammering at the leg of a rock-ing-horse, when suddenly an explosion occurred, scattering the splintered wood in.'all directions. The child was struck on the temple, cheek, and forefinger. Fortunately the wounds were not serious. After the tytl© fellow had his in j juries attended to, he explained that he had picked up something which he mistook for a brass screw, and inserting it in an old screw hole in the side of the rocking-horse, began hammering it with an iron spikft. Tt could be only surmised that he had picked up a dynahiite cap, and the hitting caused it to explode. A fragment of metal was extracted from the wound in the temple, and the nature of the report indicated that a dyn&mito cap had caused the explosion. DEATH OF A BOY. DDNEDIN, sth February. At the inquest on tho body of Cecil Robert Randall, who died from hemorrhage of the brain on Tuesday morning, tho. evidence showed . that deceased and a cousin • named Duncan M'Gillvray, aged 14 years, were playing on Sunday. M'Gillvray threw a stone at a fowl, and hit deceased by mistake. * Deceased became ill next Monday, and when tne doctor called was unconscious. An operation was performed as soon as possible, the - lad never regained consciousness. A verdict, of accidental death was returned. RECENT FATALITY AT HUNTLY. AUCKLAND, sth February. At the inquest to-day on Samuel Boden, who was killed at Huntly yesterday by a fall from a bridge, the evidence showed that concussion of the brain resulted, and that the fall into the water in an ' unconscious condition was the cause of death. A verdict of accidental death, waa returned. CANOE CAPSIZES. ■' AUCKLAND, sth February. Captain W. M'Bride, formerly of the- Union Company's service, was capsized from a" canoe conveying fruit from Afrua to the steamer Talune. He was dashed against a reef and rendered unconscious. A Native supported him till the Talune lowered a boat and picked him up. Captain M'Bride arrived by tho Talune to-day, apparently none the worse for his experfcnee. The strenuous life of to-day renders accident and sickness insurance no longer a luxury, but a necessity. The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation's new "Leader Policy" covers all accidents and 50 diseases. Prospectus sent on receipt of application. — Advt.