ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 302, 16 May 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KILLED BY A .MOTOR CAR. 'i By TeV. graph.—Press Association. ■* Wellington, Last Night. "3 Harold Wallstroni, seven years of age,i the only son of A. C. Wallstroni, a raiidrent of Petone, wag killed on the Hutts road near the Petone railway station'*! this afternoon tlirou<;ii being run over by* a motor car. The boy was returning 1 home from school, hanging on behind *nj express, and he did not see the motor';! car approaching, and moved from the express just as the car went put.-. The motor was driven by Robert Parker, " of Wellington.

A RAILWAY FATALITY. > Masterton, Last Night. At an inquest on the body of John - Montgomery, killed at the railway »t»*< tion, a verdict of accidental death wat - returned, no blame being attachable t*. anyone. ' A BOY DROWNED. Rotorua, Monday. John Leonard Edson, aged 11, wat - drowned in a pool near Whakarewarew* - yesterday. He was playing at sailing I boats with a younger brother when' both ' got out of their depth. The younger lad " managed to get to the bank, but tbt ■' elder sank immediately. . ',}

MAORI SERIOUSLY BURNED. '' ; "-'| Rotorua, Monday. -'# A Maori named Haora was serioualjjl burnt on Saturday night owing to lull "I tent catching fire from the candle lefl\*> burning while he was asleep. i A CHILD POISONED. n Auckland, Monday, ' - A child named Noel Maclndoe, aged / twenty-two months, drank liquid rafi ; . poison from a saucer at his parental it residence, Stanley Bay, on Saturday af. i ternoon. The mother administered an 1 emetic, and a doctor's services were se« 's> cured, but the child died on Sunday, ''l afternoon. ' v o LOST OVERBOARD. '| vlj Christchurch, Monday, $ Jean Yviqucl, a young Frenchman, wa* 3j lost overboard from the schooner Elia\J Firth on Thursday morning when th*'-3$ schooner was voyaging from Kaipara tO'j£ Lyttelton. When off Stephen Island IS Yviquel, who was shortening sail, alip-'J ped on to the deck and fell through the<t| rail. A lifebuoy was thrown to the aaflkii? or, but he failed to reach it, and though' "4 a boat was got away smartly, It was 'j too late to effect a rescue. Deceased, A who was about nineteen years of age,, came to Lyttelton a year ago in tht ! Jj! French barque Marie. ',_