ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10635, 20 April 1900, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUDDEN DEATH IN.CASHEL STREET. About half-past three yesterday afternoon an old man named Thomas Harrison, sixtyfive years <Jf age, died suddenly in Johnson and Couzin's shop in Cashel street. The deceased had been, employed there for the last thirty years or so, and 1m was at hia usual work when he wjis struck down. The body was removed; to the ftotheriield Hotel, where an inquest held this morning. A young man named 1 Henry Smith was working at logs at Little River yesterday when the axe slipped and severely cut his right foot. Hβ was taken to the Hospital, where the wound was stitched up. (press association tklegram.) DUNEDIN, April 19. At the inquest concerning the death o1 Margaret Knox Simpson, widow, who died from injuries received by being knocked down by a Roslyn tra.ro car, the jury 'rci turned a verdict of accidental death, and | that no blame was attachable to anyone. At the inquest at Roxburgh regarding the coooh accident, a verdict was returned that the capsizing of the coach was caused by the cap of the wheel unscrewing and the wheel coming off. A rider was added that all similar axles on licensed vehicles should be fitted with a pin through the point of the i axle and the cap.