ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9121, 14 April 1908, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association Auckland, April 13. A child named Charlotte Riley, five months old, was burnt seriously about the arms and face at her home in Newton road, yesterday. The accident occurred through a kerosene lamp upsetting. Napier, April 13. At the inquest to-day on the young man, Frank Online, w ? ho met his death in the Inner Harbour on Sun- ; day, the verdict was that he was accideuatlly killed by a shot from his own gnu, and that no blame attached to anybody, Invercargill, Apr ill 13. The Southland Times’ Otauta correspondent reports thara man named Frederick Nickol, a Gorman settler on a small section at the edge of a peat bog. at Drummond, was found , deadthis afternoon. Deceased had ■ been' summoned to .appear at the.? Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to? answer a charge of cruelly ill-treat-? iug some of his children by tying their hands and feet and then flogging them. He committed suicide hy shooting with a gnu which he fired by a siring fixed to the .- trigger. His head svas almost com- : pietely blown away.