ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Mr G. Cnu'ckshank, S.M., held an in« quest on Saturday afternoon (says th* ' Southland Times ') into the circumstaricei of the death of the little girl .Myrtle Burgess, who died in tho hospital on Friday as the result of a burning a,cciden.t at her parents' home in West Plains. The child was two and a-half years old, a-od had been left for a few mi nut as with another child about four years old, while the mother went outside. The next thing that the mother knew- w3s that the child was screaming in the .yard with her clothing on fire. The father and mother both. ran and smothered tho flames, and the little girl was romoved to tho hospital, where she died soon alter admission. There nas only a. very small lire of smouldering embers in the house when the mother went outside. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

At Trentham on Saturday a peculiar accident happened to Watson, rider of Clem in the first race. The horse was well behind the rest of the field entering the straight, and an excited (spectator on the rail.- poked his head out to watch the finish just 416 Clem came The result was that Watson's leg came in tontact with the man's head, and Waisoi suffered a compound fracture of the leg. The many friends of the Rev. Mr Spenee, of Waihola, will regret to learn that he brohe his leg yesterday, the result of a fall on piece of slippery road. Fortunately 13r Williams happened to be, in Waihola and promptly eet the leg.

A three-year-old boy mimed Albert Curtis was kicked by a horse at Normantay on Saturday afternoon, with the refillt that his leg was broken. He wa.s taken to the. Hospital. t