ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 174, 2 November 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MAJOR HUDDLES'fOX'S DEATH. By Telegraph.—Pre3s Association. Auckland. Tuesday. Mr. George Croft Huddleston, widely known in Auckland as Major Huddleston, met with an unfortunate accident yesterday, which resulted in his death to-day. Deceased, who was 62 years of a<re, was walking down the steps of his house when he slipped and fell, sustaining a severe injury to the spine. He was removed to the hospital for treatment, but the spine being practically broken, nothing could be done for the sufferer, who passed away to-day. - DROWNED FROM A TRAWLER. Napier, Tuesday. At the inquest on William* Dehoff, fisherman, who was drowned in the bay whilst trawling, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned, with a rider calling the attention of the Marine Department to the ne.glu of the bulwarks on the trawler Muriel. A BURNING FATALITY. ■ Dunedin, Tuesday. A child of twenty months, the son of William Harvey, farmer at Momona, sustained fatal burns on Sunday owing to his clothes catching fire. DROWNED IN A CREEK.. Auckland, Tuesday. An old settler of Hunua, named Bentle, , was drowned in a creek. It is sut). p< ed that he had fallen in in a faint or fit.