ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.
Thames, August 27. A child about seven years of age, named Donnelly, was playing with a detonating cap when it suddenly exploded, the result being that the little fellow’s hand was blown off from the wrist with the exception of’the litte finger. The flesh and sinews about the wrist were olso terribly torn and his face was slightly cut in two or three places. Wellington, August 26.
The body of a man named R. Matheson, a farmer residing near Marton, was found floating in i the harbor off Thorndon esplanade this morning. Deceased was about 45 years of age, and had been in town interviewing the Commissioner of Crown Lands re titles to land. As he had correspondence of yesterday’s date in his pocket, he could only have got into the water last night, but nothing is known as to bow he got there,
Napier, August 26. A child, eighteen months’ old, the daughter of a locmotive engineer named Fraser, is missing. It was last seen on the beach yesterday afternoon. There is little doubt that it is drowned, though the body has not yet been recovered. Another little girl was nearly drowned this afternoon but was pluckily rescued by a boy of eight at great risk to himself. Nelson-, August 26. A shocking fatal accident occurred early this morning to a little daughter of Mr G. Lock. The father has a hot house in which he is forcing cucumbers, and he had been attending to the furnace fire, his little girl being beside him. He left the furnace for two or three minutes, and in the meantime the child fell into the furnace. On being pulled out she was fearfully burnt, presenting a shocldng sight. The child died shortly afterwards. Christchurch, August 26. At the Resident Magistrates Court this morning, Thomas Leaf, licensee of the Junction Hotel, was fined £5 and costs for serving liquor to an intoxicated person. Dunedin, August 26,
At Laurence, Simon George McDonald, an ex-butcher,was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2247, 29 August 1891, Page 4
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341ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2247, 29 August 1891, Page 4
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