ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 17 September 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

OVERDOSE OF CHLORODYNE. By Telegraph.—Pres? Association. Auckland, Friday. A. R. Tyler, a married man; a resident of Ponsonby, is in the hospital in a critical condition as the result of taking an overdose of chlorodyne. THE WRONG MEDICINE. Auckland, Friday. A married woman named Margaret Dear is in the hospital from the effects of drinking lysol in mistaike for castor oil. THE (PEA RIFLE AGAIN. Gisborne, Friday. Billepp, cook on the schooner Awa•nui, while shifting a pea rifle, not knowing it was loaded, accidentally discharged it, receiving the contents in the groin. He was removed to the hospital. A CHILD CHOKED. Dunedin, Last Night. A child named George Scott Rayner, aged '5% years, residing with Mr. Mong, Cumberland street, was found dead in bed yesterday morning. At the inquest the medical evidence showed that death was due to vomit matter sticking in the windpipe, and a verdict was returned accordingly. A PECULIAR FATALITY. Dunedin. Last Night. Hugh Stuart, a married man, aged 32 years, who lived at Mosgiel Junction, was killed in the Government quarry at Mosgiel at about 1.15 this afternoon. He was working at the bottom of the face, and a stone about the size of a hen's egg fell from above and struck him on the back of the head, embedding itself in his skull, death being instantaneous. The stone was supposed to have been disturbed by sparrows. Deceased leaves