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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4580, 28 February 1893, Page 1

p.On Saturday morning an infant boy, twenty months old, named Donnithorne, -was drowned in the Ohapi creek, near Winchester. An inquest was held by Mr. Wray in the afternoon. The evidence showed that the creek runs close to the parents' housq, ,amd the child had to be very closely watohed to keep him from it. The mother had himinhftr arms about nine o'olock, put him down .and missed him a few minutes later. The.oreek was at once searched, and the p-hild!- body was found in about three feet of water near a plank crossing to the garden. No sign of life remained, and attempts rto restore animation were fruitless. A veediot of "Accidental death" was returned by the jury, of whom Mr De Benzy was foreman. \ •The Registrar-General's statistics shdw that during 1-892 there were sixty-eight violent dea-hs in .New Zealand, an increase of fourteen on the previous year. Fiftyjseven of these cases were accidental. -Sixteen persons were killed by falls, and fourteen by drowning ; eight by burns and •scalds, three by fractures, three by suffocation, and three infants by injuries received tat birth. One death was a case of "run over, by tramcar," and another "killed by railway engine." From poison there were two deaths, and from sunstroke one, which, with five others, completes the number of fatal accidents.

Mr HaseaJl, head gtoreutan for the Farmerß' Co--oporative A9_ocia!bion, Timar'a, was the victim of a very serious accident /yesterday, men were breaking down » stack of grain, aad a sack of wheat fell # tfMttthefr.oJ; tjrgm.of fourteen f^J* .upon

Mr Hasßall's neck and shoulders, knocking him down and doubling him up. He was taken home in an express and Dr Lovegrove Bent for. The real extent^ of his injuries was not at once ascertainable, and it may be some dayß before it iB known.