ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A Maori child named King was killed yesterday by being thrown from a buggy on the Featherston road. At the inquest on Arthur Moore, who shot himself at Carterton, a verdict of " Suicide while temporarily insane " was returned. A three-year-old daughter of Mr George Cunningham, laborer, Port Molyneux, met with a severe acoident on Tuesday evening. The * Clutha Leader' states that some live ashes had been thrown into the ashpit, beside which there was some straw. The girl placed some of the straw upon the ashes, and a fire being thus raised her clothes caught fire. She was very severely burned about the lower part of the arms and body, but is expected to recover.
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Evening Star, Issue 7343, 15 October 1887, Page 2
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118ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Evening Star, Issue 7343, 15 October 1887, Page 2
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