ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 75, 21 November 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

A CHILD ASPHYXIATED. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, November 20. An inquest was held this morning, baching the death of Lizzie Aiwa Britt, a child Jive years old. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to accidental asphyxiation caused by the child swallowing a paper fastener. SUICIDE OF A BEE-FARMER. Christchurch, November 20. 1 This afternoon the Coroner licit! an inquest concerning the death of Harold Henry Parreott, thirty years old, a bee-farmer at Taitapu. Information was received by the police to the effect, that the body of deceased had been! found, in. a hut, the head being partly blown away by a gunshot, apparently self-inflicted. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition. The man had evidently been dead some ton days. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased met with his death through committing suicide whilst of unsound mind.

ACCIDENTAL POISONING. Christchurch, November 20. Mrs Clara H. Fraser, about 10 years of age, residing at Woolston, was admitted to the Hospital to-night suffering from the effects of poison accidentally taken. She was in a semiunconscious state and was still unconscious at a late hour. Her condition >s considered to be critical. The poison taken was liniment prescribed for external application for kidney complaint.

The notorious pea-rifle has been at it again in Waitara (says the Mail), its victim this time being Hoy Limmer, who, with three,other boys, was camping on the beach. On Monday night when the party were going across the sands on the way to bed, Herbert Jury was carrying the rifle, and when getting through a fence, the trigger caught.- -Young Limmer was just in front, and the bullet struck him a little in front of the right car. The lad was quickly taken along to Dr. llamago, who ordered him to the liesp’tal, whither he went by motor car. Yesterday the doctors made an examination by means of the X-rays. The lad’s condition is satisfactory.