ACCIDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 23, 22 October 1907, Page 6

ACCIDENTS.

.DEATH FROM.'BURNS.:. Advice received by the police states that Jessie • Adora Gordon; 1G months old, ■ daughter of Mr. Adam.Gordon, farmer, Taita, died.yesterday, as, a, result of burns received four necks ago. [t.appears .that on Sepr tomber 22 the mother, of the child was placing a>mugof boiling .water on.a shelf in the scullery preparatory to rinsing it out. She left tho' mug for a minute or two whilst she' attended to something else, and the. child came along and cauglit hold of tho mug, spilling the water down, her chest.'' The infant progressed favourably-."for about .two weeks and then took a turn for the worse.; Inflammation from tho burn went inwardly and penetrated tho lungs, and this led to the child's.death/.. It is not anticipated'- -that'an. inquest .will bo necessary. ... . '■ .FATAL SHUNTING ACCIDENT: ". :.''■'. : Dunedin,; October. 21.--.George- Smith, aged seventy-four, a shipwright, ' of I'. Kensington,' was fatally; injured at i'ort Chalmers.' at 5.30 to-night. 'During some railway shunting.'operations he was knocked down and run over by a truck, both his.legs being crushed. He was removed to the hospital and died about 9 o'clock. YOUNG WOMAN'S SAD.DEATHv ; : ' ' [BY TELEGRAKT.—rRESS ASSOCIATION.] ' Blenheim, October2l. Margaret Jones, married,; aged 25, was found dead at her. father's house, ltai. Valley, yesterday morning, with a pea-rifle alongside the body. It' is ; supposed-.to be a ease ,6f suicide. Several young children are -left. .>..■ ''' ''.'"' _.'" Nelson, October 21.''; The Havelock correspondent of the "Mail" wires concerning the shooting of Mrs. Mar-, garet' Jones, that she. was the daughter of Mr..'Robert Forrest. . She was 25_ .years, of age, and.leaves two children, aged five weeks and thirteen months. ~.,,; ' ;- A NIGHT-WATCHMAN'S DEATH. ; i Auckland, October 21. . A dead- body found at Kangitoto Island has been-'identified as that of a remittance man named Frederick Stanley Sprecklcy, a night-watchman on the-schooner Kaco, who had been missing since Monday, last.- ; [

:A WOJI AN"DROWNED. ■ ; '■ '■ Westport, October 21. ■ • ', Mrs. M'Neight, sen.; was. drowned while crossing the.Totaia River in,a trap with her husband. A trace broke, and the. vehicle capsized. Tho old .lady, disappeared, and her husband searched till, lie"collapsed. ' The body has not beta found'.'... .'."" . . -.