ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11249, 14 April 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, this day. A ' child ; named ,'. Charlotte , Rileyf. .five 1 months old, ; was burnt seriously ahriut the arms and fjuce at her . home, in Newton road 'on Sunday. The/ accident occurred through a kerosene lamp , upkettmg.o Later.— The child YChaHotto Reilley, severely burned on jSattirday, has died iri the Hospital. X

NAPIER/othis day. At the inciuest yesterday on. the young man Frank Oulton, who 'met with his death in, the inner harbor ori Sunday'' a verdict was returned J that he was;accidentally killed by. a shot from liis': own gun, and that i\o blame is attached to anybody*, o - ' ,

Ji X WELLINGTON/; this dayi X ;, Joliai O'Donohue, a. single.man, a. stdkerj at t|ve electric . light ow;arks~' had -frC-leg broken while playing football ypsterdaV. GREYMOUTH, this day. , ■ Tom -Davis, a carpenter, was .'killed by a' beam falling on the line at the gdods , shed. \ •

INVERCARGILL, thisday.. The Southland Times' Otautau corres-; portdent reports that a man hariied Frederick Niko}a, a German settler on, a small section at the edge of a peat bog at Drumriirind/ was'fburid dead yesterday afterrioon. . Deceased had been summpried to appear, at the' Magistrate's dourt/on Wednesday to answer. a, charge of cruelly ill-treating some of his children by tying their hands and feet and then flogging ' them.

■-, Later,— Frederick Neka-I, a Russian settler at Drum«w>nd; , committed suicide by shooting liimself with a gun* wliich he fired by a string fixed to the trigger. His head was almost completely blown away. , The cause .was desportdtency upon receiving a, summons for ill-trea&rig his children. ,/ o, •',..