ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3215, 11 May 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DEATHS' BY DROWNING. LFEK riIESS ASSOCIATION^ AUCKLAND, May 10. A boy, 15 years of age, son o'f Mr. Jesty, a settlor of Ness Vahey, lias been missing for a weak. Search parties found the body m a deep wake;-hole. At the inquest,a verdict of accidental death by drowning was returned.

The i,' cly of a i lias keen- icUmd on the boulder .bank, above high-water mark. It "had apparently been lying for some days. It is presumed to be the erne of the two Wilson girls, of St. Andrew’s Orphanage, drowned on Easter ‘Mcnc.'ay. identification is proceeding.

SUICIDE BY LY.SOL. WANGANUI, May A single man, Alex. Harley, aged 27, employed a.t For dell, took lysol at 10 o’clock last night, and died from the effects at 2.30 this morning. DANGEROUS “RED INDIANS.” INVERCARGILL, May 10. The dangers of mimic Red Indians were forcibly demonstrated to several North Invercargill parents this afternoon. For some weeks past, despite parental warnings a number of small boys, ranging from 10 to 12 years, have been indulging in redskin battles, using bows and arrows and shields. From time to time minor injuries have been inflicted. and to-day a boy named Frank Mussen, son of a local newspaper man, was struck in the eye by an arrow, and a dangerous wound inflicted. It is impossible as yet to say how dangerousimpossible as yet to say how dangerous the injury will prove to be. FOOTBALLER’S LEG BROKEN. .

During a second-grade football match to-day a young man named Lilley had his right- leg broken below the knee.