FURTHER ’QUAKES

Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 8

FURTHER ’QUAKES

MORRINSVILLE SHAKEN AGAIN [Pms United Press Association.] HAMILTON, November 16. Monrinsvillo was further., shaken by ’quakes. There was a sharp shock-at 5 a.m. and another slight tremor followed live minutes later. No damage was done. A slight shock was felt at Hamilton about 5 a.m. ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS FRACTURED SKULLS. . David G»j diner, five years of age, fell from a delivery van at Whangarei on Saturday and fractured the base of his skull. , He is progressing favorably. Miriam Sword fell from a motor cycle when pillion riding on Sundry, at Whangarei. Her skirt caught in the spokes of a wheel and the victim was whirled round several titans. She was taken to the liusj.it}! suffering from a fracture of the base of the skull. She is progressing favorably. CYCLIS C INJURED. William Regan, a motor cyclist, swerved to avoid a motor car near Waiotira and 101 l and broke bis log. He lay on the side of the mad for two hours till he was picked up and taken to the Whangarei Hospit.il. The occupants of the car were unaware of the cyclist’s fall. FOUND DEAD IN PARK. At the inquest in Christchurch concerning the death of Loita Jacobs, aged fifty-four, who was found dead in Hagley Park, a verdict was returned that death was duo to heart .failure. CHILD I’ATALLY~BURNED. An Invercargill Association message states that the two-yea.r-old son of Mr J. W. Fainveather, of Scott’s Gap, died from burns. During the brief absence of his parents the child climbed on a chair to the table and lighted a candle, which ignited his nightdress. A SEAMAN’S DEATH. At the inquest, on Olaff Trapp, boatswain of the Apanui, who was knocked down on October 27 by a motor lorry driven by James Irvine Dines, the latter stated that he was passing a stationary cart at a slow speed when deceased stepped from behind the cart, and the guard rail on the radiator struck him, the front wheel passing over him. A verdict of accidental death was returned.—Auckland Press Association telegram.