ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
The Otautau police received word on Tuesday evening that the six months’ old child of Annie Poultnoy had been drowned at Isla Bank, by falling from a chair into a bath. It appears that the mother went to lock tlie front door. When she returned in three or four minutes the infant was in the water, dead.—' Southland Times.’ A startling accident happened atMataura on Saturday evening (reports the ‘ Ensign’). While Minnie Walton, the 11-year-old daughter of Mr D. Walton, a butcher at the Freezing Works, was replenishing the kitchen fire with coal a loud explosion occurred. A hole fylly an inch in diameter was torn in the shovel, which the child had turned over, and fragments of coal were hurled over the range and peross tha kitchen up to the ceiling, while the mantelpiece drap© caught fire from the sparks. The child received the force of the explosion, which was fortunately broken by the resistance of the shovel, in the right leg and arm, and a fragment of coal stnick the right eyeball. The eye is not thought to bo seriously injured. It is considered that the explosion was due to a detonator cap.
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Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 4
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