ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 December 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association, Auckland, Last Night. The two-year-old son of John Smith, Kiker, of Great North Uoad, died as the | result of a scalding accident while playing iu his father's bakehouse yesterday. A copper of boiling water was lying partly underneath a bench, with part of it protruding, and the child, who was standing with his back to it, was in -iome way pushed by his little brother, and fell into the water, which covered Him from the waist down. He expired a shirt time afterwards. Invercargili, Last Night. While Frank Lraudford, aged eight, wan driving with his parents on Saturday afternoon, the horse became restive and was pulled up. The trap seemingly ran oil to its heels, and it kicked twice. The boy was sitting iu the front of the trap, with his baek to the horse. The second kick caught him on the back of the nock, and he died on the way to the hospital. Wellington, Last Night. A man named Thomas Ilalligan was picked up in Wellington harbor by some boatmen on Saturday afternoon. HalliL r an was apparently dead, but Constable !Jutt ir applied artificial respiration and succeeded in restoring animation in about iifteen minute?. Charles Duncan, a farmer, of Johnsonville. while driving in a gig on Lambton<|ii:iy yesterday, was overtaken by a I tramvar, the gig being struck and Dun- i can thrown out. lie was picked up un- ! con>rir.us, found to be suffering from concussion, and sent to the hospital.