ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8144, 16 December 1904, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[pans AsfocunoN.] WANGANUI, December 15. ■ A milk cart was run into by a mixed train to-night near town, and »,boy named Frederick Eadie, aged 14 years,- was kill- , cd. A man named Zeinsley had his shoulder dislocated. WELLINGTON, December 15. Thomas Gilford, aged 40 years, expired while having his teeth extracted by a den- , tist at Petone to-day. Deceased was un- ' der an anaesthetic known as ethyl chloride. A man named Charles Hoff went to a doctor's residence to-day to obtain advice. The doctor was out, and Hoff sat down to await his return. At the expiration of about half an hour he fell off a chair, and died in a few minutes.