ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 46, 13 February 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Ilokitika, February 1-!. A (ire occurred at Kmnara at midnight, a small dwelling being burned !o llie ground. 'l'lio remains of the ck.iipanl, and .elderly woman, Mrs, (V.o. were found among tne ruins <-!•>»■■ lo flic position o, me fire [iliuo. Some few 1 years ago deceased fell over a cliff in ihn vicinity id Kmnara and was exposed fur some days, her leg uetng broken by tlie fall. Wairoa. Wednesday. Information lias Ticcii received Hint .1. \V. rawed t wao drowned at Morero hot spring, lie and ibree coni|iiini(Ois went to ti.e hath-,. The others went inside and left deceased bathing in the outside |)oid. When they came out Ihev found him dead. Xupier, Wednesday. Maurice Loiijdey Carter, a married iiiai., was found in (he bi kwaler harl)nr early this morning. Life was ml bill extinct, and strenuous cll'orts were made to iesl,,ie animation. However, the man died shortly after. Damwvirke, l/asl Night. A waggoner named Telford. whiNt driving on the Dmncviiko Coast load, met with an exciting accident, lie was met. by a motor car on the hill about twelve miles from Daiiuevirke. and the hor>es look fright ami dragged the loaded waggon oyer the roadside, and rolled about 300 feet down. Two horses were killed and the waggon sm i.siied up, In* 1 the man escaped with some bruises. Nelson. Last Xight. 1 An iii<|tie.-i concerning the death ol Mrs. Lydia Kilburg, killed in a collisioi: liefween a coach and a train at Apploln 1 on February Ist. was resumed to-day 1 when the jury inspected the scene of th< ijv'eeident. The hearing of evidence wni deferred till-to-morrow. The eonditioi of the eoaelidriver, Tiriekland. who wa; s injured internally, is still serious. n . Wellington, Last NightAVilliam Wallace, a married man, a"c.( c 28, was injured by a fall of earth whil. e employed in excavating a t Wadestowi t yesterday. Tfe died in the Wellingloi j Fe.spital tin's afternoon.

. Napier, Last Night, At the inquest on the hodv of Maurice Langley Fornnd, drowned near the breakwater this morning, a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.