ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 34, 23 January 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.)

Auckland, January 22,

At the inquest on the three-year-old girl Beatrice Alico Forbes, who died as the result of her brain being pierced by a pellet from an air-gun discharged by her nine-year-old brother, at Opotiki, the coroner returned i verdict of accidental death. Gisborne, January 22. Alfred Hall, a single man, aged’ 49, employed by Mrs W. Coopor, Wainui, was found dead in his bunk this morning. The deceased complained of pains in his chest on Saturday, and, thinking they wore due to indigestion, took some medicine. Ho failed to milk the Cows on the farm this morning, and was found as described. The coroner decided that an inquest was unnecessary on receiving the report. Oliristelmrch, January 22. Shortly before noon to-day a lad named Stevens, aged 15, whose parents reside at "Waltham, 1 had both feet badly crushed by being jambed against the wharf by the Mararoa. The boy had gone to Lyttelton with two or three companions and was fishing over the edge of the wharf. The quartermaster of the Mararoa bad warned the hoys three or four times, but they had taken no notice, and when the wind swung the vessel against the wharf lie was jambed. Phis is the second accident of the kind, as eighteen months ago a young man named Griffiths' lost a foot through being jambed againt the wharf by the Moeraki. It is suggested that the practice of fishing between the stumps and the wharf should he dealt with by a Harbour Board by-law.