ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7821, 14 June 1909, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

:. Per Fives Association. W-ANGANTJI, June 12. iVlrs John Bett, one of the oldest residents of Wanganui, died suddenly . . this afternoon, agod seventy-six. The cause of death is supposed to be heart failure. PILMERSTON NORTH, June 13. . "While Mr Dugald Matheson, a. well- - known farmer, and his .widowed sister-s-in-law were driving to church, a motor car frightened the pony in the Square, with the result that the trap was overturned. Mr Matheson sustained a scalp wound. Mrs Matheson had her left aria broken* Both were taken to a. private hospital. The ' motorists went right on without rendering assistance. i ; .;, HOKITIKA, J.ui le 12, . I , ,■■ Charles Clerkin, about forty $S«Msof Vg&i >aa killed this af,ieraeGft, He was engaged blasting a fc*g log, on the Jieach, and on .a being heard ■"twopother men similarly engaged ran up tqthesoew^and found Clerkin with ,i?i6/skull fractured in two places. JJeath ta«st have been instantaneous ■•■*•&s&■'V* the principal support of lus wiaowed mother •' ;^iv 1 w^ELSON, Juiife 14 1 ,_At Kiwaka, William Kl-ainfcr, nihiior ■who was employed.at C. St&ae's,. v**\ in the be ting of the machinery »«d-dashed to death. The deceased y-as a .young man, and his f-amUy is in tne district. ''ih^ ?\r Kin?' x-s'o^ Carried man. ,s6n .of Mrs Anstice, fell dead ■on Haven road white going home to his -lunch to-day. Heart disease was the cause and he had been under treatment for that malady :: ■\. GHHISTCHURCH, June 14. Andmvr Johnstone, a young man who ;was admitted to the hospital last week, I «-ied,. -\vhile being operated on on Fri- . ; <da3r. At an inquest held'by the District Coroner, Mr H. W. Bishop, the , "same evening, the medical testimony shqwed that the deceased had been S.utfenng from a tumour above the eye •':?t"i -,ar\ °Peration was decided upon' While he was under the anaesthetic .respiration ceased. Dr. Marks made a post, mortem examination, which indicated that the heart was in a fatt? condition and the other organs of the Body in a congested condition Ti-e Coroner returned a verdict that d'~ ■ ceased died while under u,c i.T'iuence of;,an anaesthetic, r,u4. ev WV care md* precaution had been taken ■ I'On.Saturday afternoon a v-ujn P nan iiamed Thomas Thomas was driving a dray, tlirough the -ittinpr ftM tn< , r ,^ in .Toad between Tefldin^lon n-H flt-ver--npr?s Bay, when a wheel of the dray passed over a large stone, and he was thrown out One of the wheels of the dfay passed over his left leg and broke it,just above the ankle. He was taken to,.Lyttelton, and attended by Dr Gtithne.