FATAL FALL FROM HORSE

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 8987, 9 March 1915, Page 5

FATAL FALL FROM HORSE

Press Association. HASTINGS, March 8. Perie Carpenter, aged seventeen and a-half years, daughter of Mr George Carpenter, of Grant road, Wellington, who was visiting some friends at Hastings, was killed instantly yesterday afternoon. She and her cousin, Mina Carpenter, were riding double-banked on a horse, which bucked and threw both girls. Perie landed on her head and broke her neck. The other girl escaped with a badly-bruised hip. OTHER ACCIDENTS. INVERCARGILL. March 8. Francis Wilson, aged seven years, while riding in his father’s cart, fell, and tho horse trod on his chest, inflicting injuries from which, he died a few hours later. Adam Don, a shunter at the Bluff, was seriously injured through a truck jumping the rails. It crushed him against another truck, and his leg was severed. His condition is critical.. . Frank Butler, .aged eighteen, whilst riding a motor-cycle to tho territorial camp, collided with a cart and sustained severe injuries to his head. Ho has recovered consciousness, but his condition is serious. ROTORUA, March 8. On Saturday afternoon, a Maori boy, aged .seven, named Tahiina Kcreopa, fell into a boiling pool at Whaka, being fearfully scalded on tho body, arms, and legs. Ho is in a critical condition. AUCKLAND, March 8. A man named Benjamin Jolmson Benson, who fell down the ladder of a coastal steamer on February -Jrd and fractured his ribs, died at the hospital to-dny. Deceased also sustained internal injuries in tho accident.