HELENSVILLE.
This day.. A Chapter of Accidents. A hotelkeeper's son, aged twenty months, had his hand literally tornoff by aj huge log drawn by a team of oxeni The boy's aarae is James Hand. Amputation at the wrist is necessary. .'^ '■ Another accident occurred to 'a hoi eight years old, named John Bimmel, who jumped into a railway truck on the top of an incline and; took put the break pin. The station master's two/children were in the truck, and caused him to hollow out to Rimmel to stop the 'truck. The latter tried to refix the break pin, and turned a somersault on fo the line. The truck went over himj stripping the flesh from his shoulder to the hip and breaking his ribs. '.-. ...-. ■..'.■•>'■'■';. i
: A third accident happened to a little girlj two years old, the daughter of Dr. Stewart, Eaukapakapa. She was walking along the trunk of a huge tree, and fell a considerable distance on to a stake, which entered her breast. The child ließ in a precarious condition. ':
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3099, 23 January 1879, Page 2
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172HELENSVILLE. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3099, 23 January 1879, Page 2
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