ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT HOPSCOTCH, j LITTLE GIRL'S SAD FATE. .' (By TcJeeraph.—Press Association.! Duriedin, January 5. , An accident which . occurred at luatangata last month terminated fatally in the Dunedin Hospital to-day. A; girl named Elizabeth Leitch, aged U years, was playing hopscotch near her parents residence: The lines were indistinct, and the girl's little brother was marking them in with V hayfork. Sho tripped on the fork and 'fell, and one of the prongs entered her left eyo. After receiving medical attention for a week she seemed all light, but sho subsequently complained of pains in 'tho head, and ivos removed to the hospital. The cause of death was an abscess on tho brain. ,

■ PTOMAINE POISONING. Auckland, January 5. Five persons wero more or less affected with ptomaine poisoning at Taupin through eating tinned tongues at a private picnic. Mrs. Peter Hall was most affected. ' Dr. John M'Diarmid was wired, for from Huntly, aud his efforts to alleviato tho sufferers were successful, DROWNED IN MAN A W ATU. RIVER. Palmerston North, January 5. A single man named John Dickson, aged 35, was drowned in the Manawatu Eiver at Moutoa this morning. Tho body was recovered. No further details are at present ascertainable. ' TOOK LAUDANUM.. .. Gisborne, January 5. A man named Sankel, aged 2(1 years, is reported to have committed suicide at Tokomaru Bay by takiug laudanum. THE CASE' OF NETTA THOMPSON. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Palmerston, January 5. Further particulars have been ,received iu connection with the shooting accident at Sandon on. Saturday, by which an eight-year-old girl, named Neita Thompson, was shot through the breast, the bullet being extracted from the back. It appears that tho child was with Mrs. "ioung when the latter 'was dusting the bedroom. A loaded revolver was kept in the room, and Mrs. Young had lifted the I weapon to do some dusting when it went off quite unexpectedly.