Suicides, Accidents, &c.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 238, 13 February 1894, Page 2

Suicides, Accidents, &c.

[PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Westport, February 12. Samuel Alexander Pickering, a driver in the employ of the Westport Coal Company at Coalbrookdale, hung himself in his hut. His head was affected I by an accident he met with a few years ago. He was well known iv Nelson aud on the West Coast. Auckland, February 12 A little girl named Margaret Ellen Robson, aged 3 years, was accidentally killed through falling from a trap at Te Aroha yesterday while on the way to church with her aunt, Mrs O'Grady. The little girl was thrown to the ground with such force that her skull was fractured, and she died shortly afterwards. Henry Richard Moody, laborer, was found dead in some fern at Kihikihi at the rear of an hotel, with a bottle of " Old Tom " alongside him. A verdict was returned that he died from the effects of sunstroke while under the iuflueuce of liquor. Chbistchurch. February 12. A youth named Thomas Wilson, licensed out from the Burnham Industrial School to a farmer at Springstou, died at the Hospital yesterday from peritonitis, the result of eating unripe fruit. Wellington, February 12. Dr. Hauraty, of Featherstoc, had his thigh broken by a fall, while being ejected from a hotel in which be had been refused drink on Sunday morning. This Day. The mania for poisouiug continues. A young married woman was taken to the hospital suffering from taking dissolved match heads. She is recovering. New Pltmouth, February 12. A boy named Oliver was drowned yesterday while bathing in the Waiougoua river. Richard Rundle, a pioneer settler, died on Saturday night in his eighty-eighth year. He built the railway bridge over the Wauganui river at Aramoho. Ho also bulit the first wooden store in New Plymouth in 1841, aud most of the bridges in tin's district.