ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1919, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MISSING BO ST. FOUJfD IN ORIiEK, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Thames, Last Night. A hoy named Ad tun Crabb, aged 10 years, was reported missing yesterday afternoon. Search parties were qutal( night in tiie bush along the seashore, but the bouy was not found till noon to-day, when it was discovered in a creeic about five miles from Thames, along the coast, ihe. boy was one of a patty 01 camp en ; from Hamilton. INQUEST ON A CHILD. Wellington, Last NightMr. Hiddell, y.M., held an inquest on the illegitimate infant of Dorothy Da,i vina Conrad- '

Dr. JAll'e, who iiad made a post-mor-tem examination, attributed death Co" in- j anitioi.. Evidence was given «to the effect that the child was given to an 18-1 year-old sister of the mother's to look i after. >

The coroner said he doubted if thechild had had the attention which was j said to have been given it. He did not believe some of the evidence. The verdict 1 was that the child died from inanition, i but whether that was through careless-.' ness or not, he could not say. It looked as though the child had not received the attention it should have had. LAD'S MISADVENTURE. . Timaru, Jan. 2. When the train from Fairlie arvived o'fr ■Mawaro siding this morning, the guard found a boy cf U years, named Brov nahan, was lying on the sidinff-line with one leg almost severed and bleeding profusely. Applying first aid, the guard brought the boy to timaru, and he was taken to the hospital. His parents livo at Mawaro. It appeared the Boy had gone to the aiding alone, and it is presumed he had been amusing himself starting trucks, and «s the tint "has an inclined grade ha would not be able to