ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 30 August 1905, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Telegraph Press Association. Copyrigfa Napier, August 29. A fatal accident occurred at Puke tapu this morning. A little bo named 80110 Lequesne, 15 month old, who was playing with an eldt brother near his parent's house, wa suddenly missed by bis mother.who o searching found the body in a creek short distance away from the housi Life was extinct when the body wt recovered, although it bad been i the water only a few minutes. Wellington, August 29. Mrs Thompson, an elderly womai residing in Willis Street, was i seriously injured through steppir from a moving train at Thorndc Station to-night that she died fro: shock about half an hour later. Dunedin, August 29. W Bailey, who was injured in tl Southland v. Otago match on Satu day, died at 8.30 this evening. B tnnperature had been rising all daj Chbistchubch, August 29. Michael Drummond, employed < the tramway construction works, li in a vejj serious condition at t Hospit# as the result of an accide yesterday. He was woikmg in t vicinity of others who were removi old lines bjH^ans of a lever. A ro attached tothe lever snapped, a the bar flew forward, striking Drui mond on tbe head and rendering b unconscious. Auckland, This Day The dead body of the young m Henry Sale, missing since Augi 11th, when he went out rowing, v recovered in tbe harbour to-day.