ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 85, 3 January 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

, —-V- -/ ' DEATH IN THE STREET r

CHILD Exrmrs IN ITS MOTHER'S ■■■ v "-' About 1.30 yestordav: afternooii,n a ;;.ch|ld • named Daphne Amelia Iloso.Niclserson, -aged,, 5} 1 . months, . and . of'j'Mr.--James. Nickersony .'labourer,; .Maranui, .died./in ' its' • mother's .arms'-,-.'in.- LornoVvjStreet.-0./Mrs/. Nickcrs'on : states; that' ;.,thc..,,cliild' r ; been unwell .for: two' days, -becamo-.seriously. - indisposed . whilst. being . bathed - a,t - 9 ; .o'clock.-': Sho cent for/her' husband,,:whp' instruptijii/Jtierito take ; medieai atteiKjaiit'. • '.W shi}.-.calle(l; afc;Drir Gihbs's -surgery-, at 11 o'clock: ho .-wasrout,and sho. matlo an apppintmeil^or'j'.2 i , o'clock/■ On her way/ from' a ; friend's hOuso.rtK/t-he surgery shortly: after, :L3oj ;;sho ;noti,ced": N that'; the child had c'cased breatliiiig. - :;Dr. vPigeonfwho is acting for Dr. Gibbs, • pronounced- life; ,extinct. An.yinquest, cpncerning. the-'donth of the child >vjll-'be.'■ conducted:',by. Mi-./.G;; -Lambert ;:(^)epllty,-Coro^or)^.'at7.rthe':'MorEup i, ,at 2. o'dobk' v -thls.;;aftsp'pip,n^.!j",;.;

THE JIIS&ING MOUNTAIN PORTER SUPPOSED TO BE No traces' liavo yet. Gooi'gn' Napier, J the' Tourist. _'.yepartment portor, of the 'Mount .Cooj^district', wli'.o: lias_ been missing since last Sunday liipht.:\es-, terday, in a telegram. tbMii.'. -T. ,E. cDomi'o, ■ General - Manager of tho,\DepartinentV..Chicr Guide. Grahani, • of:: tho' 'Hcmita'ge,''-;-Jlpuht. Cook, stated, that ; -a • t-horo'iigh.. So.ai;cli,, ; liad; been made of the Tasman and Hooker rivers; and up tho Tasman Glacier, as ifar: as the Ball>and-Maltcßruh .hut.v'b'ufc"ivitliout any.; result. The polico'arrive/1 Hermitage, on Wednesday/ night, • search was again resumed yestordayl- .rjThe • impression that prevails at t,ho ; Hcrm)|age. is .that Napier was accidentally^drownedp-'jii''. -the 1 looker, river.-' His father is in . church and his mother in : ' v-;'/ I - ''iii'' WEEL-KNOWN FOOTBALLER DROWNED . ; (BV TELEGRAI'n—rBESS-.^S.SO.QiA^ip^*^ •• . Dunedin, "Oamiary 2. t'V , Iho news of. the death;iof;.JohivTaiaroa;popularly known as : .''Jacli|".'!wjir'bb; reeiiivocl;. with regret thrfl^6ut:.tW-"V o ®^^)T. : l"-H<. was the eldest, son. of the litto'/Hoii; 1 ! H.'; : Ev' Taiaroa. In his day,: Jaelt-'.was-oiio pf-?the'' . best-knowm footballers. in;. New- Zehland.:-Ho represented Otago";in lino •in-1881 and 1882, and wasjal'iiicinber of the first New Zoaland team 'to"visit Australia. That was 111.1884, and thoSfecords -showithat ho" played in every match... Ho was'-also- a good, all-rotind athleto,' and'/it ."s(;cnM;-quit'o contrary to all that might-.have. bee'tt ,r (Jx- i pected that he, in the prime-of life—he-was 46' years' of. age—should have boohz'<lro>viicd. in' tiio placid , waters, of /tho /harbou? r iiear his birthplace.' 'Ho had/been /to' DuiyediU. with his mother, and returned- iuwiynotorlaunch, arriving :at, .tho ■ about 11 o'clock last'night./:His/'iflatos-'hhd got out,' and Taiaroa was/following".them. Ho cither slipped on tho stage, which is not quite level and is rather slippery, or tripped over tho . launch ....painter. At any rate ho fell into the water, "and" was quickly carried under the wharf by: the-'.strong, flood tide. Cox saw him about 'twenty . yards from the shore afterV;tho tide Md; carried him through underneath tho. MSarfJi and called out to. him to sti'ike'ou't'' r ftir ! 'the" shore. Taiaroa answered,!'" All.' right," -or '■1 am all right," and was,.then lost sight or in tho darkness. Thinking that he.,.v.:as swimming from tho shore-by others kept calling out, but .h'e;tfas : not" seen" or heard afterwards. - •'

FATAL FALL' FROM''"A -BICYCLE.

Duncdln," January 2. Charles Paterson, a young-man,-fell- off a, bicycle at Waihola 011 Tuesday wililb l.'hurrying to catch a train, and--sus,taiiw.£h£(m.cns-sion of tho brain. He died this morning. Deceased was a clerk in tho Lands' Department,

Dunedin, ■ January 2. " ■ Jack Taiaroa, aged 49 j;oiir"s;"- : .a /membor of tho first New Zealand Sydney, was drowned at Maori. 'mul- : night 011 December 31 while getting dilt r 'of a' boat on to tho wlmrf. . ,

fluchland, January 2. ' . Miss Garve.v, a visitor from -Waihi, got off an electric tramcar whilo it .was. in motion. Slie was dashed heavily 011 tnu rduJwuj, und was injured 011 tho head. There is also bleedr.' ing internally, but though her. condition-js serious there is hope" of her .recovery.