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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1989, 13 May 1885, Page 2

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(UNITED PRKSS ASSOCIATION,)

A SAD ACCIDENT.

(united press associasion) CmtisTCiiuitoii, May 12 A sad occurence happened at Shirley, three and a half miles from Christchurch, this afternoon, Tho information to hand is to the eil'ect that tho parents, a labourer named Briggsand his wife, loft the tworoomed cottage they occupiedabout 10a m, Their three children (the eldest a boy aged four years and three months) remained jjeliiuel. The door was latched, but not locked, and a coal lire was left burning in tlje ffife M 1?? s'Jgg s at 2p. m. tin entering the hofj.se sjje fflun'd'f.t'full qf smoke.. Qji t!)e for Jay the eldest pjiild, (lead, hjs body gharrcfj all'Mt 'to, cinder, while beside him lay the youngest "child, a boy of 11 months old, bnrneii «gre]y about tho lower pait of the body, The third child, two years old, was standing, in the corner of the room, Mrs Briggs screamed for assistance, and Mr R.P, Hall, who lives close by, came, and, after rendering what help he could, rode off and fetched Dr. Townsend, by whose advice the infant was removed to the Hospital, where he lies in a precarious state, A hole a foot in diameter was burned in the floor where the body of tho child was lying, and a smaller hole was near. It is supposed that his clothes caught fire at the grato, and that he rolled about the room till he died. Deceased was named James Joel Briggs.

Auckland, this day. ' A native pained Wirimu Whitongo was lying drunk on the Kawakawa railway last evening when the train from Opua ran over and killed liiin. Both anus and legs and his back were broken. Wellington, this day. The body of .a fully developed newly born infant was discovered in Fitzherbert Avenue with the side of its head knocked in. An inquest will be held, The police are investigating the matter. -