ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 246, 23 November 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A CHILD By TelegupU.—l'rca» Association. Duuc'iiin, Li.,t Nigut. Duuiel Leonard aged two, was accidentally druime! i>i a well at its parents' house, Alcxiinuiu South, on Saturday. A CASE OF SUICIDE. Duiiedin, Last Night. Robert 51ui«iiall, who has bee:i missing from Roxburgh for some days, was found in an old coalnii le at Coal Cice.i. Decomposition had set ill. A bit of string connected his loot with the trigger of a pea-rille, and the bullet had entered his forehead. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. Auckland, Lust Night. A body supposed to be that of a man named Bruce McKiimey was found in the Mahurangi river. It is believed be was accidentally drowned. A STRANGE FATAIJ 1 i. Tauranga, .Monday. William John Douglas, aj:'u .11, died in the Waihi Hospital as the result ot an operation to recover an iron staple which lie acidentnlly swallowed (last week, while mending a fence. Decease i leaves a widow and family of live.

A GUN ACCIDENT. Feilding, Monday. William Harford, a young married man, was the victim of a gun accident yesterday. He was out shooting rabbits with three, others, and whilst gating through a barbed wire fence nnniVr man's gun accidentally discharged, the Bhot entering the back of tlTe should? -. A bag which Harf.i <] was' carrying tov tunately received half the charge. The victim was operated on and is recoverrag.

FOUND DEAD. Yesterday morning information was received by the Hawera poliac 'that an old-age pensioner named John Dale, was on Sunday found dead at Manaia. The deceased lived by himself, and was aged 70. He was born in Lincolnshire, and came out to New Zealand as a young man, landing at New Plymouth. His wife died on the voyage out. After farming for a while in the Inglcwood district he settled in Manaia over twenty years' ago. He leaves several grown-up sons and daughters.