ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 170, 11 August 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DJiATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. %y Teiegntpn.—Preas Association. Hawera, August 10. .Andrew Parkinson, six years of age, died yesti; iiy whilst 'under chloroform for n slight operation. Deceased's Jioart was quite sound. The doctor* said it was oue of those unexplainable eases in which tiie patient cannot take cinoro'orm.

CONVICT ATTEMPTS SUICIDK Wellington, August 10.' 1 Solomon Levy, who was undergoing a sentence of two years' imprisonment, and who was recently -brought from Auckland, snatched up a shoemaker's knife at the IVrrauo Gaol on Saturday and gashed his throat, inllicting an ugly wound.

POUND DKOWNKI). Dargaville, August 10. Thomas Waldrou, a blacksmith at Wanganui. arrived here on July 20 and disappeared the same night, ilis body is reported to have been found yesterday at Tokatoka. on the Noithern Wairoa river. DEATH IX AX AMBULAXIK. Wellington. Last Night. Arthur Wellesley Poden, agcn all years, died in an ambulance this morning while being removed from Karori (where he had been living with relatives) to the hospital. MISHAP TO A lUDKR. Christchurch, Last Night. Mr. Ciray, a gentleman rider from Auckland, whilst riding Ben Fortune in Ihe Hunters' Hurdle Race Handicap at Riccarton to-day, received injuries which necessitated his removal to the hospital. Ben Fortune fell "when attempting to jump the first set of hurdles, and Mr. Cray was' thrown. At the hospital it was found that some of his rib 9 had been fractured.