ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1918, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

' DEATH BY 'AN EXELOSSft . ''' By Telegraph.—Press Assodafifin. j Dtroedin, Last KJUbC,', The body of a man named RobertHm ' 'V> leigh, 82 years of age, was found ofltshV fl his residence in Milton early thW htqrd&S. ing The back of .deceased's head and' ; the fingers on the left hand had' beetf;', blown away, death apparently benqfi,' caused by an explosive inserted ia Un[-'"' mouth. Deceased was an ex-coal &ine&M being well known in Milton aid l&S'"*: tangata, ' -. | INQUEST ON/aTEWLTPBOKNi DTEiJBIi '', I Wellington, Last Nigit- ■'i An inquest was held to-day into thft'- ~ death of a newly-born infant, the hodjfl. '' of which was found in a suit case Whitfi * was being carried by Nora Fleming: Dr.; Henry, who examined the body, said thai l in his opinion death was due to inatten-i tion at birth. The coroner deferred giva ' ing a verdict until Fleming, who is now;.' in hospital, is able to be present. YOUNG- MAORI INJURED. '. ,' ~ i A young Maori named Whaka Mann ; Konga met with serious injuries at Stony River on Monday evening, as the,. result of a collision between a pony he .' was riding and a motor waggon. About;. .. 6.15 p.m. he was riding towards Okato'" ,•' from his home near the toll-gate; when < the horse apparently got, out of Jtandy '• going down the hill near the StonjF Rivet|.-",': bridge, and crashed into a motor waggon!. ~* coming up the hill, the force of 'the im-: '■ pact being such as to Kill the liorsfo''{! whilst the kd sustained a broken leg -'. i arid other injuries, being' conveyed t'o the). * hospital by Mr Vincent The waggon/ ■; whichj was driven by Mr Roebuck, wa»' '• forced off the road by the eollisdoii. ' '.