ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 85, 27 August 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A PAINFUL ACCIDENT

By Talsgraph.—Pres* Awoeiatioa. Reef ton, Last Night. A young man named Neweombe, .riding in from Maruia last night,, was thrown through his horse stumbling, and broke -his leg. He was tarried by hit, friends seven miles to the end of a' road and driven 30 miles, arriving here at noon.

DROPPED DEAD.

Napier, Last Night. A man named Alfred Lester Frederend, aged 75, died in the street thie afternoon. He was walking with his married daughter back from town to their home in Wellesley road, when suddenly he collapsed, and saying, "I am done," staggered and fell. A doctor was telephoned for and speedily arrived, but by that time tlie old man was dead. KILLED WHILE TREE-CUTTING.

Taumarumii, Monday. David Syme Halliburton, aged* 43 years, a settler on a section inland from Te Maire, and a man named Hiddler partly felled a honeysuckle tree, and later were cutting another tree when the honeysuckle fell, killing Halliburton instantly.

A BODY RECOVERED,

Whangarei, Monday. The body of John Thomich, who was drowned three weeks ago in the Mangakahi river, was recovered yesterday two miles from the place where the fatality occurred.

KICKED BY A HORSE.

Hamilton, Monday. The infant daughter of Spiers, an Ohaupo settler, approached a tethered horse and was kicked on the head. An operation was performed at the hospital, but the child's condiiton is critical.

LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH.

Gisborne, Monday.

At an inquest on the body of Maud Bissell, nine years old, who was killed through being run over by a wheel of a cart at Matawhero yesterday, the coroner returned a verdict that deceased accidentally fell from the waggon to the ground and a wheel crushed her head, inflicting injuries from which she died in about half an hour. "I would like to say this," added the coroner, "that it is a very common practice for children to jump into carts and waggons along the road, the drivers very good-naturedly permitting them to do so without any anticipation of danger. There is no doubt that it is a dangerous practice, as the result in this case has shown, and it should be discouraged in future. I don't say in this case that the waggoner is to be blamed. He allowed the children to get into his waggon, with the intention of pleasing them and giving them a ride lo school. He is not to he blamed at all in the matter, but I think it should be discouraged."