AUOSOENTS AND DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7828, 22 June 1909, Page 3

AUOSOENTS AND DEATHS.

TEN PERSONS KILLED-.

NEW YORK, Juno 21. T\v'o electric trains at Chesterton, .Indiana, collided while travelling at a high speed. Ten persons were killed and twenty seriously injured, som© fatally.

WELLINGTON, June 21. An adjourned inquest was held today corncerning the death of a seaman named Matthew Moore, who fell on the scow Echo at Foxton and died in Palnierston Hospital. A verdict was returned that Moore died from bloodpoisoning due to ail injury to the kneecap-. - , WESTPORT, June 21. P. Smith, , one of the crew of the steamer Kotuku, fell down the hold this morning and was killed. CHRISTCHURCH, June 22. A woman named Jane Thomas, fiftyfour years of age, who had been staynig with her sister at 16, Kilmorc street, was found dead in bed yesterday morning. An inquest was held at the Morgue last evening by Mr H. W. Bishop, district coroner.- Dr. Gerald W. Russell stated that a post-mortem examination showed that the deceased's heart was in ail advanced state of fatty degeneration, and the liver, spleen, kidneys and stomach were also in an unhealthy epuditioih JDeath was due to heart , failures . Mary Georgina Ihoin.as, sister of the deceased, said that her sister had complained lately of difficulty in broathng, and had been treated for some affection of the lungs. She retired to bed at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday, and witness found her dead in bed at seven o'clock on the following morning. The coroner returned a verdict that the deceased died from failure of the heart's aetjom DUNEDIN, June 21. An inquest oil the hiimah remains round at Tomahawk on Saturday was held to-day. Medical evidence was to the effect that the remains were prooably those of a woman. Dr. Fulton save evidence as to attending Theresa * ;leado, about thirty-four years of age blie had told him she was afraid to be by herself night or day, and also that she would plit an end to herself. Witness thought she was on the borderland or yisanity. and he advised her relatives hat she should be sent to a mental hospital. That was not done, and he was'not m the least surprised to hear that she was missing and that she was ipposed to have drowned herself The coroner said that, taking everything into consideration, there could be little doubt that the body was that of Theresa Meade and that death was due July 14 last while temporarily insane. It^was to be regretted that" she was not sent to a mental hospital, but no doubt her relatives had taken every precaution at the time No reflection could bo cast upon the relatives for nitaf ei "g eccased t0 a mental hos-

At Timaru yesterday the coroner returned a verdict of death by drowning in the case of John Lumley Manning I "ft™** found dead on the north mole ; of the harbour on Friday morning