ACCDENTS & FATALITIES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, 4 January 1900, Page 3

ACCDENTS & FATALITIES.

[OHTOD HfflßS ASSOCIATION.] Wbllukjton, January 3. An infant named Marsden Amos, 6 months old, was burned to death at Newman through its clothes catching alight from an open stove. Richard Swain, wharf laborer, had bis left- forearm broken and partly stripped of flesh through a quarter of beef falling from the slings when being shipped aboard the Delphic. Ernest Mander sustained slight Oonousßion of the spine through falling while attempting to alight from a tramoar m motion. Inveroaboili,, January 4. Mrs Ramsay, wife of John Ramsay, mine manager at Roundhill, died m a local dentistry yesterday afternoon. An inquest will be held. Auckland, January 3. While fishing at Maunganui Bluff, Coohrane and Stehr's boat was overturned by a hu^e wave. Ooohrane, seeing the darger to Stehr, turned baok to save him and Mr Nelson, storekeeper, aided. The man was w , got ashore, greatly exhausted. Duwkdin, January 3, Thomas Fennel, son of a butcher at Kaitangata, died from injuries received through his horse bolting. He was riding out for orders when his horse apparently took fright at a train and bolted alongside the train. He either fell or was thrown off, and he became entangled with the brake of one of the waggons. He waa dragged about 40 feet before the train pulled up, and was badly m. jurtd about the head. He met hie 4e&th os his 27th birthday,