SECOND EDITION. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 937, 3 February 1908, Page 5

SECOND EDITION. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[t'KESS ASSOCIATION.] WIIANGAKKI. To-day. A Maori u;i>ncd Georgi Pu was nisianily killed by a log rolling ow>r him at Matnpmiri, owing to a jack slipp-ing. AUCKLAND, To-day. A shooting cas« i,s reported from Lautokt), Fiji, whore a native girl named Mary, engaged as nurse by Mrs Mocha m, was found shot doiid in her bedroom. It is thought that tho girl was handling a revolver, when it exploded. • AUCKLAND, Yesterday. A woman named Mrs Elizabeth 15lack, 'AS. wife of a fisherman, died this morning as tho result of burns received the previous evening. Tho accident arose through a cloth with which tho deceased was wiping up some kerosene on tho floor coming in contact with a lighted candle, which caused ilames that immediately envelnped the woman. The husband and two other men had their hands burned in the effort to extinguish i] ]( , Dames.