ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12718, 13 August 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

A BROKEN LEG. A little girl named Durothv Ada bturgoss seven years of age, slipped on some asphalt at Limvood this monunoand fractured her leg- She was adU nutted to the Christchurch Hospital. DEATH OF A CHILD, An inquest mil bo hold to-da T concernmg the death of a , child named Robert Steven Powell, eleven months old, who died at New Brighton this morning. DEATH UNDER AN/ESTH etic. [Per Press Association.] -, r n AUCKLAND, August 18. R l oel . lo -: ' nf e Police Sergeant Roche died in the hospital under an anaesthetic used for an operation on an enlarged thyroid gland. found dead. [Per Press Association.] ASHBURTON, August 13. Alexander Humphries aged about fcixty, a travelling saddler, was found dead yesterday on the farm of W H Miller at Barr Hill. Deceased was employed by Mr Miller for a few davs time 7f + deUtls: n ied at Ms wwk some: tune after midday yesterday. killed by fall op earth. [P* R Press Association.! i Th T August 13. the police received a telcsnain from Alexandra that William’ Keeble a lw 6r 'i aged ii , lfc ' v -- e f e ' 1 - was found dead yesterday under a, fall of earth. CHILD’ S~ DEATH. [Per Press Association. ] DUNEDIN, August 13. btanley Norman Guest, a fed two years, died at lialclutJm ns the result ofswallowmg a block of paint from a clnlds paint box- The child swalloweq the paint yesterday morning and. after being given an emetic, vomited and seemed all right, but' he died early this morning.