ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1907, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

• fBY TJBLEGBAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATIOS.^ AUCKLAND, This Day. A seven-year-old boy, named Rangi Smallman, was scalded to death in a boiling sjrring at Tokaanu. A number of children were playing in the hot baths, when Smallman jumped into a boiling spring by mistake. He lingered a. few hours in fearful agony. A Hikurangi telegram reports that William Belton, sen., was killed by a stone falling on him at the Ward limekiln. ASHBURTON, 20th February. At an inquest on the body found in the Rakaia Saleyards yesterday, tho medical evidence was to the effect that the man had been dead from to fourteen days. A rifle bullet ■nas found in the ekull, and a rifle near the body contained an empty cartridge. In the- man's pocket there was an account addressed to Peter Anderson, of Kinloch, from L. J. Lynch, storekeeper, Queenstown. The body was too decomposed to give any clue to-identifica-tion. The jury returned an open verdict. GISBORNE, This Day. The ecow Waikonini, fiom Morcury Bay, reports losing an able seaman named Gus Hanley, a Finn, aged thirty-nine years, off Point Awanui last evening. The man was at tho wheel, whilst the captain and crew were at tea, and after tying the wheel up he took a life buoy and disappeared. Th© vessel was, fifteen miles off land. Hanley had been ill du-ring the morning, and was lecently out of the hospital.