CASUALTIES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 10

CASUALTIES.

(press association telegrams.) AUCKLAND, April 27. A child four years ot age. the daughter of Mrs Faulbourn, was having ton, \vlic!i the sleeve of her drc«s caugat fire from s lighted candle. Tho fianvs were quickly extinguished., but ;he child was badly burned. Death ensued from shock. THAMES. April 27. A child, 2j years old, tho daughter of' Mr Horace Stone, of Haitraki Plains, met with an accident which resulted in death. The child was sitting on o chair near the fire, when her clothes became irrnitod. She received injuries of a serious nature, and shortly after died from shock. "WELLINGTON, April 27. Ronald Black, aged 17. a son of Mr James William Black, private sec-rotary to the Hon. D. Buddo, hanged himself with a strap in the bathroom at bis jinronts' residence, Kc-lburne, shortly after lunch to-day. He had been to his studies in tho morning, as usual, and at luv.ch-iiroo he seemed in normal health and :pirits. His mother misled him. but thought he had returned to school. Later on, when she went to the bathroom, sho found the door locked, and investigation showed that the boy was hanging by a strap, dead. The hoy's relatives store that a week or two ago he -witnessed a moving picture representation of a man hanging himself, or pretending to do so. Vo ; :ng Black had a passion for experiment, and it is thought thai- he was a tempting to carry out what he had sofii iv the picture, without intending to to he his life.