ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 179, 28 January 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A LABORER DUOWNIiO. By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, Yesterday. A laborer named John Illingworth, 44 years of age, was drowned in the Wairau liiiver at Spring Creek yesterday. lie attempted to swini across the river and sank half-way. N t is presumed he was seized with cramp. The body has been recovered. A HULK-KEIiPEI:',S D2ATII. Wellington, Yesterday. At the inquest on the body of the hulk-keeper, James Waterstrect, who was drowned in the harbor on January 0, a verdict was returned that deceased was accidentally drowned, no blame being attachable to anyone. ' FOUND DROWN It 0. Blenheim, hast Night. A midrfle-st£cil unmarried man, named James Ford, by occupation a tailor, was found drowned in the Omalca Oliver this afternoon.

TIIE DENTAL OPERATION. YiVauite, Yesterda. George Leeder, a master ulumbor, who recently came to Waimate from Christehureh, died yesterday at his residence whilst chloroform was being administered for the purpose of a dental operation. He leaves a widow and n young family.

EXPLOSION OF A LAMP. Christcliureh, Yesterday. Last night Mrs Colnn, of Ilarewood Road, wan injured by the c:.?los,io\ of n kerosene lamp. The explosion ocelli- d While she was sitting at a table by the lamp. Her face was severely burned, and she was taken to the hospital, where it was reported to-day that no serious results were anticipated.