ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81912, 29 December 1906, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, December 28. The Coroner held an inquest to-day concerning the death of a little girl. Doris livelyn iMeCiU'icii, who succumbed to injuries sustained through her clothes catching lire 0:1 Wednesday last at a house at Otahuliu. Daniel McCartcn; an uncle, said deceased, with some other children, was sent to a shop to buy lollies. Shortly iaftcrwards, one of the children came running hack saying that Doris' clothes were 011 lire. He mounted his bicycle and rode toward the store. When he arrived there, Dr. Rowley was already dressing the wounds. The girl Said to witness: "A man threw a inatcii on me." She did not say who the man was. Dr. Walsh said, the girl remarked; at the hospital that she "must have got n match, on/her, 1 ' lmt sift did not appear to know who threw it., Dr. Rowley's letter to him stated that; tile child, was set' on tire, apparently by a . .earelessly 'tlirpwn -match. She tiled on the following morning. This was the third child of the family that had been treated in the hospital. Sergeant Carroll- said tlmt Dr. Rowley, if called, would say that the child said to liiin, "Jt was unfair for the man to throw the, match on me." The sergeant said lie would like the point further investigated. The inquest was adjourned till January SJth. ■ ,\An of the suburban sanitary contractors- named James Mitchell was picked up dead oil the road near Avondale this morning. Tin; wheels of his cart had passed- over his body, though whether he had been I walking alongside and stumbled) or had fallen olf the vehicle i,s not known. Deceased was driving a loaded cart to: the depot, .-and;his dead body'was picked up by Liie driver of the next cart. jUitehcll :Was a married man with a large family. (Jhristchureh, December 28. This afternoon a young man named David, Strahaii >wa» drowned in tlie, \Vaiinakariri ltiy'sr while bathing near vlie iMafeking J3ridgu itt Xaiapoi.: It is supposed lie was seized with, cramp or became entangled amongst f the. .weeds. ; Tile body was recovered shortly alter. His parents reside alt' Dunedin. Straehan was spending* the holidays with friends at Kaiapoi. Dunedin, December' 2S. A young man named J. . TowiUey was killed by a kick irom a horse today near iialclutha.