ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9085, 2 March 1908, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Gisborne, March 2. Harry Tobee, aged 18, of Mount Roskill, Auckland, went for a bathe vesterday afternoon and sank suddenly and was drowned, although assistance was almost immediately to hand,. The body was recovered hours later. Aucklnad, March 3. A married woman named Lilian Britten, who gave birth to a child, a few days ago, died in'.the hosiptal from blood poisoning yesterday. An inquest was considered necessary as a medical certificate of death was withheld. It is understood from the nurse who was attending Mrs Britten that deceased asked that no medical man should be called in and that she refused to see a doctor until she was so ill that it became absolutely necessary. Dr. Murphy, who was called in, ordered _ Jher immediate removal to the hosiptal. An elderly woman nafned Eliza Elizabeth Milton, who was proceeding to visit some friends in one of the bays of Waiheke Island died in a small boat in which she was being rowed ashore. Evidence at the inquest disclosed that she suffered from a diseased heart. Blenheim, March 2. Maggie Simposn, aged fourteen, was badly injured on Saturday evening through her clothes catching fire whlie lighting the younger children to bed with a candle. She was taken to the hospital where she died at one o’clock yesterday morning. The parents and elder sister were absent from the house at the time of the accident. Whangarei, March 3. As an old settler, Mr James William Reed, accompanied by his wife Elizabeth, was driving in a buggy from his home at Parahaki to attend morning service im Whangarei yesterday, the horse took fright and dashed down Paranui Hill, which is a very steep grade, and the vehicle capsized and was smashed to atoms. Mrs Reed was so badly injured that she died three hours afterwards. Mr Reed was seriously shaken, hut is reported as doing' well.