ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Mataura Ensign, 10 June 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SYDNEY' CLERGYAIAN KILLED BY A .MOTOR. Li\ ELKCnUC TKI.Ku i: A i'Jl —K'OYIi dill I'Kft UNITED rUHSS AStfOCTATIOV, Received June 10, U.l-3 a.m. MELBOURNE, June 10. I The Rev. J. Gillett, reclor of St. | Alathias', Paddington, Sydney, while j on a visit here, was run over and killed | by a motor car at St. Kilda yesterday. I'fiK lINITKO PItIOSK ASSOCIATION. DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORAI AT IN VELICARGILL. INVERCARGILL, June !>. A death under chloroform occurred yesterday morning iu the surgery of Air A. E. Smith, dentist. Arnold Kiugslaud, aged 17 years, son of Air Jas. Kingslanil. had been suffering from a painful tooth, and it was deemed advisable by Dr Hogg to place the sufferer under an anaesthetic .ill order to extract the tooth. Arrangements were made to carry out the operation yesterday morning. The extraction was o/focted by Air Smith, and tins patient recovered Jrom the influence of tho chloroform—(he anaesthetic administered. Not long afterwards, however, ho collopsed, and death ensued. At, the time Drs Hogg, Ewart and Hunter were present.

CHILD BURNED TO DEATH . CAAI.HUIDG E, J line JO. ' I he lour-year-old son of Ceo. t'lice, a Karapiro settler, was burned to deaih through his clothes catching tin' while his parents were absent, milking. • BUGGY ACCIDENT.

EIvETAEUN'A, June ,10. Jiv.a buggy accident, caused through horses boiling, al Tiruumeu, the driver (Hansen) was rendered unconscious and still remains so. Airs Holmes was in a similar state but recovered, and the others were knocked about more or less. A J'ATAL FALL. PAHIATIIA, June JO. John Beaufort, surveyor, - I.>ll down stairs and died in the hospital. He leaves a grown-up family.