ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 140, 5 August 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, August 4. A man named Thomas Burgess, aged 62 years, died in a remarkable manner at Cavorehau to-day. Ho was seen loaning over a fence, the top of which was cut in a zig-zag form, and when an investigation was made it was found ho was dead. Apparently death was cither due to strangulation or to a fit of some kind. Deceased had been working in the country, and came home on Tuesday for a holiday. Auckland, August 4. A poisoning case occuired to-day. Two young children, Rita Ross (aged two years) and Wm. Ross (aged rive years), were playing in their parents’ house when they found a bottle of belladonna and took some.. The-ef-fect was serious, and -the children became very ill, and had to be taken to the hospital. Their condition had improved to-night, and hopes of their recovery are entertained. Captain Andrew Sloane foil over a cliff while walking in his garden at Herne Bay, and sustained injuries from which he died in tlis hospital. It is not known how the accident occurred.

A private cablegram from Fiji reports the death by drowning of Alfred N. Srtong, a young Aucklander, who left for the Islands a few months ago.