ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 55, 25 February 1902, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PXB PBBSB AISOOIATIOH. Ddnedik, February 24. A lad agfld 17, eldest son of )Cr John Kowf, a builder at Onehunga, partook of a hearty me*l of pelonies, and the following day became seriously ill and died. It is supposed to be a ease of poisoning. Auckland, February 34. I An accident took place at Opotibi, i whereby F Butta' sou, aged five, waa ' drowned. He wag playing arouad a j well in the backyard, overbalance!, and i fell into six feet of water, striking hi* | head on the brick* a* hfi fell. Ac A Isiderabh urne elapsed bsfora hj« I missed. ■ | Napier, February 24. R A fatal trap actid nt occurred L V | Pakowhai this afternoon, by which I | lad named John Mundell, aged se\ ■ >.yem, sen of Mr Adam Mundell, * livery stable keeper of Hastings, lost his life. The boy, with his father, two caster*, and a man named Stock, had been on a blackberry icg expedition atid were driving home, but near the Pakowhai bridge the horse jibbed and all the occupants of the trap elightqf, Stock catching bold of the hone's head, but i' pulled back, and in doing si j tanned the boy againut the f< roe. Mr Mundell picked the boy up, but after a few gasps he expired ia his father's arms. T>a horse is a very quiet animal, but is known as a bad jibber. Much sympathy is felt for the psrente of the unfortunate lad.