ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 737, 10 June 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

■' ■ ■ » a [press association.] WOODVILLE, Juno 8. A two-year-old child named Newbury fell into a well at Maharahara to-day, and was drowned. INVERCARGILL, June 9. Arnold, a Kingsland boy, aged about 15, died under chloroform while having teeth extracted to-day. CAMBRIDGE, June 10. Tlio four-year-old son of George Price, of Karapiro, a settler, was burned to death, through his clothes catching fire. The parents were absent, engaged in milking their cows. PAHIATUA, June 10. A man named John Beaufort, a surveyor, was 'found by two men at the foot of a staircase about 10 o'clock on Saturday night, evidently having fallen down stairs. He was conveyed to the hospital and a doctor was summoned, but the man died at eight o'clock on Sunday morning. Deceased leaves three grown up sons here, his wife and two children being in America and daughter in Australia. An inquest is being held.