Sudden death.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3835, 17 April 1899, Page 2

Sudden death.

Cokomandel, Saturday.— Mrs Egan, wife of Dennis JEgan, died very suddenly to-day* Ugan left his house this morning with a sporting gun. His wife, who,fcad partaken of a hearty-breakfast, being then apparently well. He had only been away a few minutes when one of the children ran after him crying ' Mother is dying. ' He hurried back but found his wife breathing his last.

Dr Bull held a post mortem and stated that death was due to syncope. An inquest was held bj Captain Swindley, Coroner, the -verdict being 'death from natural causes.' Mrs Egan was 34 years old and leaves nine children, the youngest six months old. Fire. "Wanganui, Saturday. — The Aromoha railway station and refreshment rooms were burned to the ground shortly after 1 30 this morning. Sudden death. v Wellington, Saturday. —Mr Engall, in charge thenotfl depart ment of the Bank of New Zealand, died suddenly in a 'bus, while coming from Worser Bay, this morning. The cause is supposed to have been heart disease.

A blow up. Wellington, Saturday. — Two young men, Joseph Slit t and John Guthrie, took half a keg of gun powderinto a blacksmith's shop atßerhamporeyesterday afternoon and spilt some. They put a match, for a lark, to the loose powder but it communicated with the keg aud the place was blown to atoms. Fortunately they were some distance from the main explosion but both were badly burned ani Gruthrie will probably loose the sight of one eye. Alcoholic poisoningWellington. Sunday, —At the inquest uu 'it" child Douglas Ro-m, who died on Friday, a post mortem confirmed the evidence that the child had consumed whisky. The boy was only four and a half years and was left alone in bed when the pa rer ts rose in the mo- nn ig. Subsequently lie became possessed of ft bottle containing w"hi*ky, left in another room. The child par-

i took of the contents and convulsions ensued, resulting in death. A verdict of death from* alcoholic poisoning, the result of mis adventure, was returned. Mine fatality Dunediw, Saturday. — James Me Intosh, son of the manager of the Allandalecoal mine, at Shag point, was killed in the mine goic g down a level- on a truck which apparently ran off the rails. Mo Intosh was thrown against one of the pillars and his skull was fractured. His father was absent in. the north at the time. Body found. Dunedin, Sunday. — A body supposed to be that of an Assyrian was found in the bush on Mount Cargill, three miles from this city. There were no marks of violence on the body which has not been identified.

THE FRENCH MINISTER OF MARINE AND HIS NEW SUBMARINE BOAT.

M. Lockroy, the French Minister of Marine; whose recent speech, when introducing the naval estimates in the French Chamber of Deputies is considered by the London press to be a direct menace to Great Britain, has had rather a stormy career as a politician. Originally an artist he fought under Garibaldi in the sixties, and returning to Paris drifted into journalism, his contributions to the 'RappeV a strongly antiImperialist paper, gaining him imprisonment and heavy fines. He was chief of a battalion of the National Guard during the siege of Paris, and was elected for the Seine in the National Assembly. After the war he became very prominent oy his violent articles in his journal ' The Sovereign People,' and fought a duel with the fire -eating 'Bonapartiat, Paul de Gassagnac. A specially hot article in March, 1873, resulted in a month's imprisonment for its author, who, however, was elected, during his imprisonment, for the Department of Bouches dv Rhone by 55,000 votes. In 1876 he was again returned for Paris, and has been more or less prominent in French politics ever since. M. Lookroy was for long an important member of Victor Hugo's circles, having married Charles Hugo's widow in 1877. This somewhat erratic politician whose faith in the value of the new French sub-marine boat has been a good deal ridiculed by praotical seamen has communicated to the Paris newspaper ' Matin ' the following ajcount of the torpedoing of tfie ironclad Magenta, on board of which he was, during the recent experiments with the sub-marine boat Gustavo Zede. * The eyes of all on board was fixed on the sea. Officers and men stood watching the crest of the waves, and every minute* there were exclamations as someone fancied he had seen the submarine "boat. We imagined we saw it everywhere, and it was nowhere. In point of fact it was proceeding quietly, invisibly, to-, wards its mark. The excitement of the crew was at fever heat, and I thought of the tortures whjoh the bravest men, the most selfpossessed commanders, would suffer in the case of a real attack by this invisible adversary. Suddenly a precise and exact observation was made. The cupola of the Gustave Zede had just appeared four hundred yards away, still abreast of us, notwithstanding the distance which we had covered. Immediately orders were issued. The guns were brought to bear upon her, and the quick-firers depressed in her direction. But the sub-marine boat was no longer there. §he had avoided our fire, and was hidden from our view. A minute elapsed. Though orders were given to the engineer to put on steam, and the Magenta had gone some considerable distance in these sixty seconds, the Admiral and I, leaning over the railings of the bridge, saw approaching us with lightning speed an elongated body, shining like gold. It struck the ship about four yards below the water-line, and was smashed on the iron armour, but if it had been charged the Magenta would have been sunk.'

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