ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 68, 7 April 1902, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PER PHBSB AMOOIATIOM. Cheistchdboh, April 6. When tho 7 o'clot k iram wae oomiogdown from Papanui to town Iwfc near the North Belt, a youog woman named M«ry Brown, 23 ye-rsofagi,. jump d oft while the oars were is mo ion Hnd fe'l. The trim went o»®r l ;t'i le s, inflicting f'ight-ful injuries. Jfcihe was takc-n to tli" hoi-pita', t' at If o ly aft 'r midnight. SliC * of P*ter Brown, of Akaroa* and niec3 to C.ionpbell Brown of "J'" t'lton, A young gi-1 nomed Al'ce Phipp*» daughter of Sydney Phipps of Syaen- ! bam, was found dead in a bath tbia morning 11 i * snpr ose l she bad a fit. Avcelahd, April 5. A m»n Messenger bad » narrow escape at Rotoruaon He entered a.manhole ■onoeefced with the sewage system without taking tb* necessary p r ectuiiana, end mecumbeA very quickly to ihe sulphur fumefc tvbieh, in fioturoa, collect iu addition, to ordinary sewirage gasses. On eeeing Messenger succumb a Maori entered ! the manhole, and fastened a rope rouodi i the unconrcioul Win's body. Tbe ) fume' almost overcimc the Maori, tat 1 he managed to re?ch the jsurfaoe before 5 he fainted. Messenger waa then drawn up and found to ba in a tad w,*y. H# I wpg i onv<-yed to his lodging* in grert 1 agony, and attended by Dr Kenny;