ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16666, 11 April 1916, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Peb Unitetj Peess Association.) ROTORUA, April 10. Tho third child of Mr Oonnoll Hayes, of Mokai (Lindsay, aged 2| years)- died lart night. It is supposed that the children died from fungus poieoning. A single man named John Downing was found dead in a well at Ophir on Saturday night with his throat cut. Downing was 5o years of age. William Carr, a young man, employed by tho Electric Company, while working on tho roof of tho Mornington Cathoho Church yesterday morning fell to tho ground, a distance of 18ft, and received some sever© cuts about tho eye. He was taken to tho Hospital, where he was attended to, and then left that institution.

Amongst the men who presented themselves at tho recruiting offico at Auckland on Tuesday was a young man who proved unable to cndiiro tho ordeal of medical examination, and promptly fainted away (says the Star)- The doctor mode a thorough examination of his subject, but was _unable to pronounco that there waa sufficient cause for his rejection. The yorang man declared that this is the first occasion in his life on which ho has fainted. It would thus appear that even the strongest arc liable to give way under unusual and tavinff conditions.