ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 242, 18 November 1909, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■WAX MATCHES: THEIR DANGEB. " By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last flight. Some days ago a girl named Constance Nielson, aged nineteen months, whose parents live at Ravensbourne, managed to reach a box of wax matches on the table next her cot. She bit the heads of a number and swallowed them. It was not until yesterday morning that »ny ill effects became visible, and then the mother sent for Dr. McKellar. From the first he held out no hope, and the girl died during the day. An inquest was held this morning before the coroser (Mr. Graliam). A verdict of death irom phosphorous poisoning was returned. Mr. Graham, commenting upon the <ssp, eiid there was a Bill being brought before Pnvlininnit at Home to do away with lie- UfJfactiire of phosphorous matches on account o? thp <}isease imparted to those engaged in the trasje. Such a bill, if it became law, would also prevent such distressing misadventures as the present.

' JOCKEY'S ATTEMPTED SOIC'IDE Wellington, Last Night. Jack r.»! rrla is the name of the young man who was discovered in the hills between Kaiwarra and Ngahauranga with a bullet wound in his forehead nnd a revolver clo-e by. It appears that Koberts, who is a Jockey, comes from Marlborough, and had only been in Wellington a week or two. He has stated that lie eaire here to attend race meetings apd had lost a comparatively large Pjjtfi pf nipimy. On iiiipiiry to-night it was ascerfjiiijcd that lie is still in a critical condition, A FATAL STUMBLE. Invercargill, Last Night James Dutliie, aged lit. in getting oil n ballast train at Atliol station, stumbled and the plough of the van dragged him Under the trucks, resulting in severe (rounds from which Dutliie died on his qray to the hospital.