ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 158, 21 November 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MOTOR-CYCLE ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, Wednesday. Details of the motor-cycle accident are meagre. Tin; Rev. Mr. Eaton had some ribs broken and cuts about the body; the llcv. Mr .McArtlvur was also cut "bout. A CHILD ASPHYXIATED.

Christchureh, Last Night. An inquest was held this morning, touching the death of Lizzie Aiwa Britt, a child live years old. The. Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to accidental • asphyxiation caused by the child swallowing a paper fastener. ' SUICIDE OF A BEE-FARMER. Christchureh, Last Night. This alternoon the Coroner held an inquest concerning the death of Harold Henry Parrcott, thirty years old, a beefarmer at Taitapu. Information was received bv the police to the effect that the body of deceased had been found in a hut* the head being partly blown away by a gunshot, apparently self-inflicted. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition. The man had evidently been dead some ten days. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased met with his death through committing suicide whilst of unsound mind.

ACCIDENTAL POISONING. Christchurch, Last Night. Mrs. Clara 11. Fraser, about 49 years of ago. residing at Woolston, was .admitted to the Hospital to-night suffering from the, effects of poison- accidentally taken. She was in a semi-unconscious state and was still unconscious at a late hour. Tier condition is considered to be critical. The poison taken was liniment prescribed for external application for kidney complaint.

The notorious pea-rifle has been at it again in Waitara, its victim this time being Roy Limmer, who with three other boys, was camping on the beach. On Monday night when the party were going across the sands on thfr way to bed. Herbert Jury was carrying the rifle, and when getting through a fence, the trigger ealight. Young Limmer was just in front, and the bullet struck him a- little in front of the right ear. The lad was quickly taken along to Dr. Ramage, who ordered him to the hospital, whither he went bv motor car. Yesterday the doctors made an examination by means of the X-rays. The lad's condition is satisfactory.--Mail.