ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 150, 4 October 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BOY KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hawera, Monday. A sad fatality occurred atPahama on Sunday iby which a boy , mimed Fred. Mason, son of the schoolniaiKJfcltyt Piihama, lost his life. The lad. ,vpi<\ was thirteen years old, was the bank of a river, when by some* ineani he fell into the stream, strikjjig x 'ftisfioiti on a boulder. The blow rendere'd Mason unconscious, and he died shortly v wards without regaining his senses^,-- 1 • - SAD DROWNING FATi^y^'^ , Auckland, MoiftUj/^' A sad drowning accident vbi Richmond, Grey Lynn, ye s tella«s < noon, the victim being .the eighteen-moi 1 ohs-old daughter of EdjK mund Elliott, ffcilmonger. The chilcP • had been playing; rounds its mother's* ' knee during the afternoon abounj 4.45 p.m., when Mrs: called .inside for a few minutes. She left th<| 'cKild playing about, but on retyping afi ter a brief absence, was sefl that the little .one bad disappe'jltffed. Aj search was at (face,instituted, yards away child was dead at the bottom of a ditch, aptftit four feet deep, containing several inches lot, water. It appears that the cliilct'ln runj-' ning about, tumbled' into the ptch amfi was drowned. | j TILE FLANNELETTE AGAIN. ~ J Nelson, Monday.) At Neudorf on 'Saturday Mrs., Rft|tlierine Gerrish, wife of Mr. Edward ,Gar-i rish, died as the result of burns from & flannelette nightdress. On Friday tfig&t she was sitting by a fire in > her and he*" husfband was in bed. The la'tto • was awakened by screams, and found ps wife enveloped in flames. Remedies wera iii vain, and death from shock ensukll some hours later. w\\ PROVIDES HIMSELF WITH A COFFI^; Auckland, Monday. Tdios. William Mann,, aged 78 year?, - an old-age pensioner, was found dead in a -bunk at his house, Matakana. -JHe_had been in ill-health for some time and had slept with a ready-made coffin over his bunk and made his own arrangements for'his burial. BUSHMAN ISURN'T TO DEATH. Wairoa, Last Night. A man named Patrick Donnelly was a victim of fire at Bellenby's accommodation house, Alorere, and died in the hospital this afternoon. Deceased, who was •23 years of age, was employed as a bushman and was not long out from Ireland. He has a sister at Napier and a brother near Gislborne. DEATH OF AN INFANT. Hastings, Last Night. An adjourned inquest on the body of a newly-born child, alleged to be th<3 offspring of a single woman, aged 26 years, was concluded to-day. The jury's verdict was, "That Maria Mooney is the mother of the child, the subject of this inquest, and that there is not sufficient medical evidence to show whether the child was born dead or alive."