ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 19793, 17 February 1928, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

SCIENCE CLASS MISHAP. A Pahiatua Association message states that it was found necessary yesterday to perform another operation on the lad Leslie Wilfred Murphy, who was recently seriously injured in the abdomen as the result of an explosion at the District High School. At the first operation a piece of jagged glass was removed. The explosion occurred in the science laboratory, where a number of secondary pupils, including Murphy, were attending a lesson dealing with the use of sodium for the purpose of collecting hydrogen. The explosion smashed a large jar to fragments. BEES CAUSE DEATH. . A well-known Native, Hori Paki, was engaged in ejecting bees from his house at Oku hi, near Maapihi, yesterday, when the bees attacked and sung Jiim badly about the head and neck. Paki went outside and called his wife, and then collapsed, and died immediately. At the inquest the medical evidence was that Paki .died from heart failure, chiefly due to' excitement as a result of bee stings. The coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. CARS COLLIDE. Late last night two cars collided on the Hutt road, and one capsized. Mrs Burns received severe injuries to the head, and three others were hurt, but not seriously.—Wellington Association message.