CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 190, 12 August 1919, Page 8

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

"•DISEASED HEART CONDITION". An inquest concerning the deaih of Emily Harriet Houghton, aged f>o years, of S, Gundry Street, Newton, who dicil suddcnlj- at her residence, was held at the morgue yesterday afternoon. Dr J. Moir. who had made a post mortem examination, stated that the cause of death was heart failure, due n> the fatty and dilated condition of ttie: ieart. Mr. A. G. Houghton. husband of the deceased, stated that his wife got up about <i.30 a.m. as usual. She lia.lj recently been complaining of neuralgia and other slight disaffection*. About I 7-50 a.m. he went into the dining-room, and found deceased half lying on a chair.; then seemed to be dead. Dr. Moir ramo almost immediately, but could only say that life was extinct. The coroner's Ending was in accordance with the medical evidence. A DEATH. The inquest into the causes of death! of Albert Henry Wiseman, of 21, Nelson! Street, whose body was found in a water-! logged dinghy off the '•Three Sisters"! group of islands, was resumed thie morn-i rog before the Coroner. Mr. .1. E. Wilson,' 6.M". ; Dr. S. A. Stride stated that he made a| post mortem examination of tne body.! In his opinion the cause of death was! drowning. ; Mr. H. E. Barnsley. secretary of the' Northern Fishermen's Union, stated that he together with Constables Insley. (i:l-| ]espie, and others, went to the Three Sisters Islands to search for the fishing nets belonging to the deceased. They; found the nete in approximately the position indicated by Giliespie in his evidence. They were laden with fish.| Apparently part of the net had been moved from its setting, as it was lying on a rock awish. The catch was too heavy to be taken into the dinghy, and' too heavy to handle until they cut th« nete, when they recovered 58$ dozen fish.; They then went, to Muddy Kay to pick, up the launch belonging to deceased.; They found the reversing- gear not in' good order, and that the online required cleaning. Tfiey brought the launch back; to They were unable to find the oars belonging to the dinghy, but! they were informed that one had since. ■been picked up on the s-hore of Waiheke Island. Owing to the enormous weight of fish in the nets, it would have been impossible for two men to handle them, end no Ssherman's dinghy would have I carried them. After hie observation of, tie position, he -was of the opinion that' deceased, when taking a portion of the! nets and fish, into the dinghy, got the dinghy swamped, and lost his oars: he then threw the nets and ash out again and drifted to sea. T!»e finding- was that the cause of! death was drowning-, probably following' on exhaustion caused by severe exertion: in attempting to take in a heaw catch of fish.