ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLII, Issue 9473, 4 March 1922, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

THE GREYMOUTH TRAGEDY. (Per Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, March 3. The adjourned inquest into the death of the six victims of the stuff tragedy at Blaketown beach during the Reef ton picnic on February 8 wa-s held before Mr F. H. Kilgour (Act-ing-Coroner) and a jury of four. After evidence on the lines previously published, the, jury returned a verdict of accidentally drowned, and expressed condolence with the relatives. The Coroner said it was time something was done to safeguard visitors to the beach from its hidden dangers, and he would recommend the Borough Council and Harbour Board to attend to this need speedily. “I might say I am satisfied,” said the Coroner, “that the person who stole the life-line was partly responsible for the deaths of those six people.” SHOT IN HEAD. GISBORNE*, March 2. Richard Donald, aged 30, a station hand, was fatally shot yesterday at Paremata, near Tolaga. Bay. He had visited a settler’s house and entered one of the rooms. The settler and another visitor were outside, and hearing a gunshot rushed in and found Donald dead, with a wound in his head, the shot having evidently been fired from a gun in.,the room. • > A NARROW ESCAPE. WELLINGTON, March 3. To escape without serious injury from a motor-car wrecked by collision with a railway engine is the piece of unusual good fortune experienced by Mrs W. Nicol, Belmont, when driving a car which was caught by a train proceeding to Wellington. The car was badly damaged and thrown to ‘he side of the road. Mrs Nicol escaped with a severe shaking.

PINNED UNDER LOGS. 4 ROTORUA, March 3. A serious accident occurred at Ongaroto. A truck carrying niatai logs was derailed and two . men, W. A. Given and E. Campbell, were pinned underneath tHp. : .logs’*■.Given was released in an unconscious state and sent to the King George Hosoioal in a commandeered car. The hospital' ambulance brought in Campbell. The roads were terrible after the 'navy raips The extent of the\injuries to the men is not yet determined. : Given is a widower with, one' child, fnd Campbell is • married. w r : , ~ ‘ . '' MAORI DROWNED. GISBORNE, March 2. A Maori, named Mata Kawn, was drowned at the mouth of the Waiapu Rive ryesterday. Deceased was "with a party fishing when the boat- got adrift, and in endeavouring to recover it he lost his life. SINGLE WOMAN’S DEATH. DUNEDIN, This Day. A verdict of suicide bj 4 hanging while temporarily depressed was returned at the inquest on Mary Lucy Morrison, single, aged 39, who was found hanging by a clothes line in a washhouse at the rear of her parents’ house.