ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 94, 17 May 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DEATH, OF AX IXFAXT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Saturday. An inquest was opened on the body of' an infant found .dead in an outhouse at Port Ahuriri. The child had breathed, though imperfectly, and had it been born under proper conditions would probably have lived. The inquest was adjourned in order to obtain the mother's attendance. BOY'S FATAL MISADVENTURE. Oamaru, Saturday Night. A boy named Thomas Cuff, aged ,11 years, was accidentally killed by an explosion of acetylene gas to-day. fie was playing with other .boys in the, tent occupied by the Jones Buck-jumping Co., and struck a match to examine a tin containing dry carbide. An explosion followed, and the top of tlie tin was driven into his head, killing him instantaneously. A SERIOUS'FALL. Dunedin, Last Night. Archibald Andrew, a retired baker, aged who lived with his wife at Wiugatui. suffered a very serious accident last Saturday. He was doing some carpentering in the house, and in some way or the other appears to have fallen nine feet. His wife ran to him and fund him lying unconscious. The injured man was removed to a private hospital in town, where he lies' in a very precarious condition, his spine being 'badly injured.