ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10882, 5 February 1901, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

An inquest, was held yesterday on the body of Sarah Jane Lockhart, who died at the Hospital on Si-tin-dary. The evidencs went to show that deceased had been in a state of ill-health and mental depresision foi some time past, and had been sent to England for the benefit of the change. Sine, returning from there, however, about- a month ago, her condition had become worse.. After hearing the evidence of her married sister, Mary Leech Hooper, and of Drs. R. . M. Anderson and Hall, the jury returned _> verdict "That death had been caused by taking a corrosive poison while te_nporari_V insane." A man named F. Roper was thrown from his horse at Kirwee yesterday, and brought to the Christchurch Hospital with a dislocated shoulder. This was soon set. One of the Cliristehurch* volunteers was taking part in the physical drill at the drillsned yesterday when he managed to dislocate his left shoulder. He was taken to the Hospital, where the shoulder was set. : (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) • ' PALMERSTON NORTH, February 4. • While Mr and Mrs Re veil, of Kairango, '■-~ and a daughter, were driving home from a •* funeral on Saturday, the horses bolted, throwing them out of the vehicle. M_t. Revell, who was formerly head messenger at the Parliamentary Buildings, suffered ' severe concussion of the brain, and his cheekbone, eye, and shoulder were also injured; Mis.** Re veil's jawbone and lefc arm were : broken. Mr Revell has been partly unconscious since the accident, and liis condition is serious. -* ' WELLINGTON, February 4. | Herman Poll, aged twenty-three, a car- ' | penter, was drowned in the Wakamarina ; j river, Marlborough, yesterday. He was j engaged in building a pontoon for the Gol- j den Point dredge, and while returning to j shore his boat capsized. A lad named Fraii-_ ] cis Haughey, who was in the boat, scrambled i ashore. |