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Temuka Leader, Issue 2505, 20 May 1893, Page 2

Accident at Geraldine. Alexander Worner, :> years of age. and son of Mr F. "Worner, butcher. Geraldine, came very rear his death on Thursday morning last by falling over a precipitous bank 15 feet high at the back of Mr E. Morrison's store. At the spot where he happened to fall the river was shallow, and the pluck}' little lad raiser] himself up on his feet again, although his face was streaming with blood. Lujkily someone was at hand in time and caught him just ns he was about to fall back into the deeper water. He was rt once tiken to the Geraldine Hotel, where Dr. Craig a few minutes afterwards attended to him. Strange to say, theie were no bones broken, and the only injury the boy received was a semi-circular scalp wound about three inches in length. Up to the present there have been no symptoms of injury to the brain, and the child has at no time been insensible, so that the doctor thinks the probability is that nothing serious will result. Mrs Reseigh, the landlady at the Geraldine Hotel, deserves credit for the kind attention she gave the sufferer, and also for keeping him for a few days till he is fit to be removed home. It is a great wonder the child escaped a broken neck,