ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15548, 4 March 1914, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

BOY'S NARROW ESCAPE.

ENTANGLED IN BELTING."

[BT TELEGRAPH.—OWN cortespondent.] Dargavtlle, Tuesday. A narrow escape from death is reported from Arapohue. While an oil engine was at work on the farm of H. Sills his little son attempted to place a belt on a pulley. Immediately the man in charge noted that the sparker was not acting properly. He stopped the engine, and on ascending into the loft found the little fellow enveloped by the driving belt, with all his clothes stripped from his body. The lad was conveyed to the district hospital, when it was found that his .collarbone was broken and his body very much bruised. After receiving surgical attention he was allowed to return to his home. MAORI CHILD DROWNED. WANDERED FROM SETTLEMENT. [BI TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Whangarei, Tuesday. The police were advised to-day that a native child named Te Opu Hbpu was drowned near Kaikou Settlement yesterday. It appears that the child wandered away from the settlement during its parents' absence, and when search was made the body was found in an adjacent stream. The matter was reported to the district coroner, who decided that an inquest was unnecessary. %

FARMER SHOOTS HIMSELF. TEMPORARILY INSANE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Ashbubton, Tuesday. The body of a single man named Frederick William Frampton, 28 years of age,* a farmer at Willowby, was found beneath an apple tree in an orchard near his residence late yesterday afternoon. A doublebanilled gun was lying beside the body, and a wound in the left breast was evidence of the cause of death. At the inquest this morning the coroner returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane. CONTRACTOR DROWNED. ' SLIPPED INTO RIVER. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Hobttika, Tuesday. An accident happened at seven o'clock this morning at the south wall works in Hokitika Harbour, whereby Thomas Savage, aged 45, one of the contractors, lost his footing, and, falling into the river, was swept out to sea and drowned. The present contract is almqst completed.