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Hastings Standard, Issue 319, 11 May 1897, Page 3

At Kaiapoi, on Friday afternoon, a girl named Alma Bullock, ten years of age, wh:l> playing with a collie dog, tripped and fell, fracturing her right wrist. A man named Sheridan, one of the linemen at work near Turakina, sustained a very nasty cut on the shoulder last week through an axe falling from the top of the metal pit, which had been left there by one of the gang. A painful accident befel Mr Fred Irvine, mate of the s.s. Kiripaka, as that steamer was coming alongside the Auckland wharf a few clays ago, "While handling the cork fender he got one of his arms jammed between a pile and the steamer's side, with the result that his arm was badly crushed, but fortunately no bones were broken. While two boys named Hoar and Colyer were practising with a pea rifle in the back yard of Messrs John Orr and Co., Ashburton, Hoar went up to the target, when the rifle held by Colyer went off, hitting Hoar in the back. Dr. Leahy attended the injured boy, bat was unable to locate the bullet, which seems to have glanced off the spine and cannot be found. A laborer named James Thompson jumped into the Waipoua river on Saturday with the intention of committing suicide. The water being rather cold he came ashore again and was taken charge of by a constable. In a pocket book he had written the following, addressed to a solicitor in Masterton :—" Dear Sir, —I write you these few lines to let you know that I have drowned myself in the ." Drink was at the bottom of the affair. At two o'clock last Saturday morning a girl named Rhoda Welshman, aged fifteen, died unexpectedly at Soathbrook. She was the orphan niece of Mr J. Laskey, Southbrook, with whom she had resided for nine years. Five years ago she went to domestic service with Mr Thurlow, bootmaker, Kaiapoi. On Tuesday logt she became ill with vomiting, and Mrs Thurlow treated her mg-far a bilious attack. As she did ™ not get better, on Friday Dr. Parsons prescribed for her, and she was removed to her uncle's at Southbrook. Seemingly she was no worse, and conversed with those about her. At 2 a.m. on Saturday, however, she suddenly expired. Dr. Parsons being unable to certify to the cause of death, an inquest was held yesterday before Mr C. I. Jennings, J.P., and a jury having Mr H. Archer as foreman. Dr Parsons, who had made a post-mortem examination, stated that death had resulted from shock caused by ruptuie of the gall bladder, the primary cause of the rupture being the oating of some indigestible substance. Tbo jury returned a verdict in accordaaoe with die medical testimony'