ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 296, 18 June 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

1 [press association. 1 ; WELLINGTON, yesterday. , George Brown, while working t paper-cutter at the factory of C. M Banks and Co. to-day, got his am I under a heavy knife, and had hi: hand cut off above the wrist. H< was taken to the Hospital. Browt is 20 years of age. j HASTINGS, yesterday. Details of the fatal fire last nighi at Porangahau, by which the school

i master's wife. Mrs H. Robson, aged ► about 30, was burnt to doath,show that Mr Robson was engaged in a work- . shop a few yards from the house, last . night, about nine o'clock, Mrs Robson having retired to rest. He knew nothing of the fire until the. alarm was raised, and by tbat time the house was in flames. A bystan.l- --~ ) ex lushed to the front window, rescued a lad three years of age, the only child. It is surmised that the cur--0 tains caught fire, and that Mrs Robson, who was in delicate health,,faint--1 ed, and was overcome by the smoke. Deceased was a native of Hastings, and well known there. She was formerly a teacher at the District - "High Schdol. - '