ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 11695, 29 September 1902, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

The lad King, who was injured in the train accident at Pelichet Bay, has partially recovered consciousness, aud improved considerably. His condition is more hopeful. A young man named John Horsfall came into collision with a horse vehicle this morning, but sustained no very serious inSiries. He went to the hospital to get his irises attended to. James Anderson, while shipping a donkey engine at- Port Chalmers, got his foot crushed by being jammed. He was taken to the Dunedin Hospital. Kong Woo, a Chinese miner, aged fortyeight years, was found dead in Ins hut at Cromwell yesterday. An inquest is to be held. CHRISTCHURCH, September 29. Rudolph Kelly, aged four years, died at the hospital this morning through burns caused by .his nightdress catching fire yesterday. WESTPORT, September 29. Mabel Ralph, aged five years, died suddenly at Denniston through drinking a bottle of cough mixture: ' HAW ERA, September 29.. A few days ago an oM man named Leys was found in ao unconscious state in the bush near Opunake. He was taken to Opnnake, where he was medically attended to. News received this morning that ha is desd. *• NAPIER, September 29. Sydney Smith, about forty-five years, died at the hospital yesterday as the result of severe bums. Deceased was'found lying on a bed in bis whare in' an unconscious state, his head and'face being badly burned. WAEROA, September 29. , Thomas Bailey,’ capelin •of the cutter Eleanor, was found dead in his cabin yesterday. , • '• Turning qq the taps of four casks Robt. Kennedy ~ deliberately allowed sixty gallons of whisky valued at £SO to run to waste at Glasgow. «It was more like the not of» rabid teetotaller than of a dnm4ken man,” commented the sheriff when sentencing him to twelve months’imprison«*edt. ' >