FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1856, 21 February 1889, Page 4

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

A young man named William Legondor Milburn, who acted as secretary to the grocers’ picnic held at Nuranor on Tuesday, mot with his death by drowning in the bath?.- Just before the party left for home he and about twenty others were engaged in a swimming race. When returning to the lower end of the baths to start in another event, he was seized with cramp, and sank before his comrades could assist him. The body was sometime afterwards taken to Christchurch, Mi.'burn was making arrangements to return to England in a month to seo his parents. A man named Wi Ham Smith was ktl ed at Little Kyeburn, Dtngo, through being thrown from his horse. A shocking accident i* reported from Balmont, in the Upper Hutt (WtT'ington) district. A little boy of ton, son of John Stratton, was deft in the house with Ida sister Maud, aged nine, lie got his father’s ijfle from the bedroom and a cartridge Horn a shelf, and must have loaded the lifle, as he says it was at ful cock and ho accidentally touched ilm trigger, blowing the top of his sister’s Imad off, and scattering her brains about. The girl fell down dead and the boy ran to tell his father, who Was at work in a field. The mother was away in Wo lington.