SHOCKING DEATH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1908, Page 5

SHOCKING DEATH.

A BOY'S FATAL MISTAKE. [BT TEUJGBATH — PRESS ASSOCIATION*.] PAHIATUA, This Day. A shocking accident occurred at Mangatainoka yesterday afternoon which remitted in, the death of Frederick (i reave;;-, the ten-year-old son of Mr Greaves, of Mangatainoka. It appears tho boy rode his horse into the liver near the Mangatainoka bridge for the purpose of giving it a, drink. Observing a shiny substance in the water, he picked it up, placed it in his blouse, and galloped off. lie had proceeded, only Lome fifty yards when he discovered that his clothes were <->n fire. The &übstance whirh he had believed to be a rare piece of metal proved to bo a luriijv of phosphorous, which on boing exposed ci> tro aii- instantly ignited. The lad, who by this time \\as a muss of flames, jumped oil tho horse and ran in tha direction of the brewery Constable May, who happened to bo, in the vicinity, immediately tore off his coat and placed it round the unfoitunato sufferer end after strenuous effort)!, in which he was assisted by willing hands, ho nsamged to extinguish the flames. The little fellowt who behaved most heroiliilly, wiis in a dreadful condition, being burnt from neck to knees, and in intense agony. Everything possible was done to relieve him but faint hope of bis recovery was entertained and ho died at two o'clock this morning. An inqufeit will be held.