ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 255, 5 January 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A PICNIC FATALITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Wednesday. Miss Charlotte Stewart, one of a pic. Nic party, had an apoplectic seizure on Coromandel beach, and was removed to the hospital, where she expired.

LOST IN THE BUSH. Auckland, Wednesday, Mrs. Mary Spragg, who resides at Mount Albert, Auckland, mysteriously disappeared from her summer residence on W'hitakerei Ranges on' Saturday evening. Search parties were out during Sunday and Monday, but it was not until yesterday afternoon that she was found entangled in the bush on the ranges. She was in a position from which she could not free herself, and had experienced a very trying time, and was in a very weak condition. Later; Mrs. Spragg, who was found after having been three days lost in the Waitakerei Bush, died this morning ol pneumonia.

A CHILD DROWNED. Thames, Wednesday. A child of three, the daughter ol Robert Ritchie, a well-known settler at Puriri, near Thames, while playing with 'her brother, fell off a hedge into a creek below, and was drowned before help was secured.

WHARF LABORER'S DEATH. Gisborne, Wednesday. A wharf laborer named Charles Polsen, aged 49, was killed this morning whilst working in the hold of a lighter, a sling containing 7 cwt. of salt falling on him. Death was instantaneous.

A PROSPECTOR'S DEATH. Masterton, Last Night. The body of Thomas Donnelly, a prospector, who was missed on April 1 last, was found this morning by a party of campers near Mt. Holdswor'th track. He had evidently fallen over a cliff, and died from exposure.