ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 686, 10 December 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A BOY DROWNED. (By Tcltcranh—Prcea Association.) Napier, December 9. A boy named George Norman, aged eight years, son of Sir. Willwn Norman, labourer* wtn drowned in the Tntaekun Elver, near tho E«oreation Ground, this evening while bathing. Efforts at rcsoue made by several young men wero frustrated by a strong oui- v rent and the muddy state of the water. • BLOOD POISONING. ' Napier, Deoembor 9. A young man named William Bodley, aged 19 jeais, son o£ Henry Boilley, of J?ohui, died at Napier Hospital this morning as the result \ of an accident It appears that on November ' 30 deceased was riding nn the road near Pohui ■»hon his liorso ivas frightened by a motor tar. There was a oollision between the car and the horse, and tho nnimnl foil and trod ou one of joung Bodley's hands Blood poison, ing set in, with fatal termination. TALL OVER AN EMBANKMENT. Chrlstchiirch,: Deecmbor 9. Daniel Criuckshank, employed on the Mid land Kailway works in tho vicinity of the Cast, btjond Broken ltucr, met with a serious accident to-daj. JJe was running out a truck, which went o\er the end of an embankment taking him with it. He fell a distanco ov tlurtj or fortj' feet, and the truck landed on tte top of him. His injuries >vere so scnoue f-at lie was lemoied to Ihc Cliristcliurck Hospital YOUNG MAN COIiIHTS SUICIDE. ' Auckland, December 9. A joung man named James William Cray* moiiu, who had just attained his majority, committed suicide at his homo in Ponsonbj to-day. Ho was employed by Mr. Kane, > grocoi, and when he went home for lunch ho tonk with him a bottle of lysol. Ho appeared somen hat depressed, and retired from thv house for a few minutes, returning in ureal pain and blating he had swallowed tho Ijsol Within a quartci of an honi ho was dead. A MARRIED WOMAN'S DEATH. , Dunedin, Dccembbr 9> Margaret Stratton, a marned woman, agoi' 49, was found dead this nfloinoou. She wai hanging by means of a scaif fiom a clolliet livulc bohind a dooi. She hail boon under trcalniPiit fir time past foi mental and uurvo troubles. THE HAKAIA RIVEII ACCIDENT. Chnstctiurch, Dcocmber 9. 1 The constable at Little ttner leporls, itt connection with (lio.diovninp fatality at the mouth of the Rakaia s!ner, rhat aftoi soarcl 1 - ing tho beach north of the mcr, no traces of tho bodies were- found. < SUDDEN DEATHS. Christchurch, December 9. 1 Uliiabeth Rice, aged 74, died suddenly al Kaiapoi, of heart failure. Dunedin, December 9. Tho police are informed that Jexemiah Norman, licensee of tho llridgc Hotel, Miller's Hat, died suddenly to-day.