ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9724, 13 May 1892, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

RATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. [Special to Pstsna Association.! WASHINGTON, May 11. Dirty millers were killed by a colliery explosion at lloslyn, in the "Washington territory, [Received May 13, at 12.50 a.m.] LOSS OP SIXTY LIVES. VIENNA, May 12. Owing to the capsize ox a raft on tho river Sfcyr, near Brody, a frontier town of Austrian Galicia, sixty persons were drowned. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 12. The cutter Esk was driven ashore at Paparos, near Coromandel. No lives were lost. It is expected that the vessel will be got off. An inquest was held at the Police Station yesterday morning, before Colonel Lean (coroner), and a jury, of which Mr Hermitage was chosen foreman, touching tho death of the illegitimate child of a young woman named Forbes, which was born on Tuesday last. After hearing the evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of “ Death from natural causes.” On Monday a child named Francis Vere Mitchell, three years and four months of age, fell into a tub of hot soapsuds while playing near tho washhouse at his parents’ residence, in Draper’s road, Richmond. Mrs Mitiheli heard the child crying, and look him out of the water as soon as she could, and sent for Dr Deamer, who attended, and found the body badly scalded

about the left side. Every remedy waa applied, and other medical men were called is, but their combined efforts were unavailing; and the little sufferer died on Tuesday afternoon from the shock to the system.