ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 232, 5 November 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

CHILD DROWNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Thursday. The two-year-old daughter of Whatawhata, a resident of Johnston, was drowned in a creek. INJURED WHILST WRESTLING. Blenheim, Thursday. While wrestling in a sideshow at the agricultural show yesterday, a man named W liudd had his right knee badly fractured.

BUIIXED TO DEATH. Gisborne, Last Night. A fire broke out at nine o'clock tonight in a two-roomed Maori whare near the beach, and an aged .Maori named lleni Willoughby was burned to dentil. Her husbandj a European named Henry Willoughby, got out when the fire started, hut the woman, who was sleeping in the back of the whare, could not evidently reach the door. Her charred body was found near the doorway. The husband was arrested on a charge of drunkenness and breach of a prohibition order.

A regrettable accident happened at Mr. Parke's bush at the Okotuku on Monday afternoon (reports the Wavcrley correspondent of the Patea Press). Messrs. M. Leo, Uncles and Harry Martin were finishing a contract of bushfelling, when Martin's axe missed its billet, chopped through his boot, and cut inside the big toe to the instep. It was an ugly gash, the blade being buried. "Martin bore bis' trouble like a man. Uncles carried Martin for half a mile up hill to camp, and from there lie was brought in by trap to Dr. Harvey.