ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 118, 11 February 1908, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

KICKED BY A HORSE.' ■ An inquest was held at .Ohau on Friday before Mr. Nation, " J il 3 ;, coijcernmg - the death of Dorothy Marion Do - Lisle, aged 8 years,.: who .died, as ' a ''result of; injuries- indicted'. by .a-,horse; -, - . . The,..evidence I showed' that .the little. - girl was. sent on an errand, and.that without-tho knowledge. of- her' parents: slie': went to catch j a-.hora.e; with. thoi object-'of■■'riding'to' the place whither .she, was'stnt. ! ''-Whilo : 'iTie was in the .act it' '.lashed out, ■ striking, her in tile abdomdii: 'Medical- assist-, anco was: obtained, but tho child!, succumbed "eighteen .hours'after the accident. '■ .- The ; jury - returned a, - verdict of accidental, death, duo to a kick from a horse. \< : (BY TEMSGRArH—MIESS ASSOCIATION.) " CHILD BURNED TO , DEATH. ' Whanssrei,,,February'lo. The three-year-old-son of the lite l'ukcroa was burned to death ,at . Opo,utg}i,6 'on Saturday, by falling m the ~l}rb. : Ml ;The child's ■ mother was-.outside at. tho time..-,-- . DREDGE HAND SCALDED. ■• , 1 i.--; . - .' Jli"!lf' j V . Duncdin, February 10..

■ . William Woods, tho Hartleyand Riley dredge, was badly scalded through tho starting-valve, blowing out',>. ';. . ; : LITTLEVGIRL ' FATALLy'IbTO . . ; \ . Napier,, February 10. • .An accident," fatally, occurred at, Hastings on Saturday'.'; A kerosene stovo, -which-was; being-usW in ;the houso of a; family riame<l-'Mitcliell, caught fire, and was', thrown outside..- A littlo girl, Jemima Mitchell,.; in, runiiing' round ;thb houso, fell over tho, stove while it:>vKs : stil] burning,' her !clothing-catching firo;'/ She sustained 'severe injurieai-'whidi necessitated' ; her removal to' ■tho-» .Napier' '.Hospital,. -'whero she died on 'Sunday night.'/ . ' '