ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 235, 10 November 1909, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

By Telegraph.—Press Association Nelson, Monday Night. •A year-old child ol Cocil Hooper o Wakefield, was drowned by falling into a "tream At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. A child three years of age, son o Frank Coleman, Waimea-street, found dead in bed on Saturday morning, had been suffering from a severe cold. A verdict of death from suffocation wa* returned at the inquest. ... Cambridge, Morula). News las just reached Cambridge that Mr. Joseph Gane, a well-known settler connected with fanning institutions, has been killed at his farm at Kaipaki. Deceased was urging a bull when the animal lifted his head and a lever struck Mr. Gane on the side of the head and killed him instantaneously. Mr. Gane was aged iO. He was a very old settler and was greatly respected. Wellington, Monday. Margaret Bain, a single woman, was found dead in bed on Saturday afternoon. At an inquest the medical evidence was to the effect that death was either due to suffocation or to acute alcoholism. A verdict was returned accordingly. Monday .

'At the Kauri Timber Company's null at Whitianga a loose piece of timber was thrown over"a saw with ternhc force. It struck a saw doctor named Harry Eyre below the lower rib and penetrated the abdomen. Eyre died from hemorrhage and shock. Dannevirke, Tuesdaj. Phillip James Arnaboldi a settler at Weber, was thrown from ahorse on Saturday and had his neck dislocated, uruaj au Hastings, Tuesday. Thomas Wm. BroadSeld, 74 years of age, a widower, was found lying on a footpath near his house m a state oi collapse. He died before removal. He was a Crimean, Indian mutiny, and Maori veteran.

' Oamaru, Tuesday. Kobert Stewart, a railway employee, iniured whilst shunting in a raduay yard on 21st October, died last night, aired 28 years. He was married. Dunedin, Last Night. Mrs. James Smith, a resident «f ■Woodlands, died at the haspital this morning from burns sustained last week while working at a range. She slipped and capsized a kettle of boding water our her body. ri9tchurchjlastN . gh Henry John Morgan, a middle-aged married man, attempted suicide by tat ine poison. He was admitted to tn.. hospital, where he lies in a precarious condition.

A workman on the Stratford-Ongarue line met with a severe accident near Te Wera on Monday while at work in a cutting. He was caught by a fall of earth, sustaining, it is stated, a broken thigh and two broken arms. His mates carlied him to Toko and brought him in bv the morning train to Stratford hospital. No further details are available.