ACCIDENTS AND INQUESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 11 September 1886, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND INQUESTS.

Michael Dbikcoll was killed at Westport on September 1 by a tree falling upon him.

Poter Grant, contractor, haa boon killed by being run over by a pae6enger train near Duncditi.

Tho snowfall nt Afhburton, Oantovbury, on August 27 , is said to be tho boaviest evor known there-

Mr Roos appears for dofondnnt ia ono of Sir Julius Voxel's libel euitt", and means to make t lively for tho prosecutor.

A mm named Wostwny has boon killed nt AHhburton, Canterbury, through tho bolting of a horso which he was working.

Edward Ncwburn has boon killed noor Timaru by follinp from a dray, tho wheels of which paesed over him and crushed his chost.

Ralph R/jmsdon, son of tho manager of Wellington Woollon Factory, pot his left arm badly lacerated by the machinery on Soplomber 2.

Mr Harvoy. Inspector of Agents of the Scottish Provincial Assuranco Company, has be«n nppointod London socretary of tho Colonial Mutuul Life Assurance Asaociation.

The body of apowcrfully-built man, ibout fivn foot eight inchos high, was found Qonting in the Waihou river, near Shaftesbury, Te Arabs, on Monday morning, Au^uet 23.

A boy named Thou. Hough bos met with his doath in a curious manner at Tapanui, Otnr/o. Ho was, with other boya, being pursued by tho owner of land for tresspafsing, whon he fell and broke his neck.

Wo sinceroly regret to hear that Mr A. F. Porter, of Nortbcote, has lost a son by drowning. He was accidentally drowned while crossing the Jackson River on the West Coast of tho South Island on 30th July last.

News reached Rnssoll on Saturday, August 21, of a sad boating fatality which occurred tho day previous at tho mouth of the Korikeri River, ro?ulting in tho drowning of two boys named Hansen, and one girl, the daughter of Mr Mountain.

A two-year-old child, daughter of Mr Hecnan, of Springfield Hotel, Canterbury, was drowned on August 25 in a pool of water a few inches deep. The little one fell on her face in the water, ond though promptly lifted by a sister, life was found to be extinct.

About 5.30 p,m. Ob August 20 Mr Lonergan was driving a light spring trap along Upper Pitt street, when, through some unexplained caueo, a little girl, who waa wandering along the thoroughfare, was knocked down and run over. She was conveyed to the residence of ber father, Mr Rowbottom, who reeides near tho King's Arms Hotel, and Dr. Purchas was sent for. On examination bo found that she had sustained dreadful injuries to the abdomen, and the right thigh was severely bruised Sho has since died from the injurios sustained.

A married woman named Phcebo Martin mot with ber death on August 31 under the following circumstances :—She has been living with Mr and Mrs Coleridge, Alexandra-street, and on returning home from work about 630 pm. yesterday, took off her boots and started to go upstairs. She had reached the top stop, whenahe suddenly fell to the bottom, and was quite dead when picked up. Dr. Haineß was however cent for, and he found that the nock of the unfortunate woman had been broken by tho fall. Deceaeed ivas 20 years of ago, and had two children aged 5 and 3 years, living in the house with her. Her husband is a gumdigger, named William Mai tin, and he had only left for Tairua on the previous morning.

A little girl, two years of age, ■daughter of Sergeant Cooper, of the A.C. Force, stationed at Fort Cautley, met its death uuder peculiar and painful circumstancos on Sunday, September 5. It appears that at about 8 o'clock the family were at breakfast, when, Mrs Cooper having her attention for a moment drawn from the children, the youngest, Ella May, put hel" mouth to tho spout of a teapot, and eucked from it some of the contents, which were boiling. Tho child was ovklontly severely scalded, and cried piteously. Sergeant Cooper immediately took tho little sufferer in his arm? and hurried with her to Dr. Campbell, who is attached to the artillery, and tho services of Dr. Parkinson yore also obtiined. The mo«t approved remedies were npplicd, but notwithstanding all thac was done for the little girl, she had a change for the worse, and died on 7th 'net.

Shortly before 3 o'clock on 21th ulto., Mr Warren Blythe, aeettlerat Greenhyrhe.near Hollior'sCroek, reported thata fatolaceident had occurred near his place. He states that about 9 30 thiß morning a boy ran to his farm with the newe that a boat had upset, and two men were clinging to the mast. Mr Blythe got into his dingy, accompanied by the boy, and after pulling about 100 yard?, came to a man named Charloa Clark, who is a settler at Hellyer's Creek. He was clingiDg|to the mast of the cutter Tui, and hia weight had almost pulled it level with the water. Clark was rescued by Mr Blythe, and stated that ha bad been in <he water about a at hour. He Haid that he and a man named George, the owner of the Tui, had that morning started for town with about three tons of ffrewood. The boat heeled over to the wind and rapidly filled through a large gap that there was above the water level. The two of them clung to the mast, but Clark pays that about a quarter of an hour previous to his rescue, the man called George attempted to swim to the shoro, but was drowned before his eyes after ho had gone about twolve yards. As Clark was unable to pwim he wa= precluded from rendering any as-istance. The deceuie-i was the owner of Iho Tui. do Li a single man, and has no relatives in the colony. But for the prompt action of Mr Blythe there can be little doubt but that Clark must also have boon drowned, as he was getting exhausted.