ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 7337, 8 October 1887, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

& serious and peculiar accident occurred on Wednesday morning at Mataura (says the ' Ensign') to a daughter of Constable Leece, about four years of age. While going over a doorstep at one of th.e outhouses, and while her father was speaking to her, she fell with a stick in her mouth, which ran through the palate to tfre ear, causing it to bleed profusely. Dr Cox was telegraphed for, and attended to her wants as soon as he arrived. She is not yet out of danger, and it is feared that at any rate permanent deafness may result. A serious and very painful accident occurred at Chatton, the viotim being Miss Black. The accident was a somewhat peculiar one. A canister containing powder l somehow got into the fire, and, exploding, 1 injured the young lady somewhat severely about the face. At first it was thought that her eyes were dangerously injured; but we hear that any danger of a loss of eyesight is almost past. A man named Duncan M'Rae, a farmer at Forest Hill, Southland, while ploughing, met with a severe accident. The team of horses bolted whilst he was engaged altering the coulter, and he was dragged through a swamp with the plough. Both his legs are badly cut about the knees, and his shoulder is badly torn. The exaojfc amount of injuries sustained is not yet correctly known.