Accidents and Fatalities.
[By Telegraph.] (Per Pr, .<»• Association.) Auckland, This day. The girl Yickors. at Cambridge, who attempted to lake her life by swal'.nwing laudanum, is progressing, though still very low. Wei/lingtox, This day. Alic Linsop, aged 10, a son of the local Carterton chemist, was out eserotemg on a bicycle, and whilst " sc*ol»ing " ran head first into the a trap, smashed his skuil in, and was picked up unconscious. lie is still lingeiing but unconscious. A Hillstone telegrun in a Sydney paper states: Two girls, aged respectively 7 and 3, the daughters of Jacob Hidgecoek. a boundary rider, on Gunbar, died suddenly on Saturday, it is believed from poisoning. The children who were with their, mother bccam • ill suddenly, and she endeavored t© carry them to a neighbor's, a mile away. The task was too gr>-at, and she left the eldest child, taking the youngest one, who died on the road, and when they returned co the house the eldest one was also dead. No poison had been used on thpremises for over 12 months, and it is surmised that they drank out of an old bottle that had been used for a solution for rabbitpoisoning.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 321, 13 May 1897, Page 3
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