ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 69, 12 September 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KOL'Xi) DKOWN'KJJ. By Telegraph—l J re»a Association. l.'liiiatciiunii, liomUi}. At thu inqllL'sl cg.ku lung itio Uiath of Airs. Andrew Todd, wiiose Imklv was found in tlie Heatlicote river on Saturday, a verdict of found drowned was re turned. Tlie coroner said tluit, from what he knew of the woman, she was the last person likely to take her own life.

DEATH FiiOM BUItXS. Ilaweva, .Monday. Lillian Harper, an eight-year-old child of William Harper, a swttler of Mokoia, was admitted to the hospital yesterday morning suffering from burns. The child had got out of bed to put a piece of wood on the fire, when her flannelette clothing caught fire. She died in the evening from the shock.

SUICIDE BY HANGING. Gisborne, Monday. A young man named John Hulme committed suicide by hanging himself at the Waipiro Hospital this morning. AUCKLAND FATALITIES. Auckland, Monday. , At 8 o'clock yesterday, Alexander Nel son, aged 43, shift boss in the tunnel on the railway line near Maungatoroto, was found dead in his bed at camp.

In the afternoon the body of Michael McKenna, aged 50. a ganger on the line was found in a paddock 200 yards from camp.

James Devonport, aged 71. who was injured, presumably by collision with a motor car, on the 3rd inst., died to-day. SCAFFOLDING GIVES WAY. Wantramii, Last Night.

A swioais accident- occurred this afternoon on the new Convent bwihlinos now in course of erection on St. John's Hi 11. 'Five imen were working on the scaffolding, a considerable height about the ground, when tlic structure collated. The men were precipitated to earth, and all were more or less injured. Robert Ranvston had his leg 1 broken.