CASUALTIES.D

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15218, 4 March 1915, Page 10

CASUALTIES.D

On Monday last, Mrs Percy MurrayAynsley had a nasty accident. Whilst driving «lone in the? Leader river-bed, without any apparent reason, her pony began kicking. It got one leg over a shaft, and kicked away until the vehicle was a complete wreck. Mrs Mur-ray-Ay nsley, badly bruised and knocked* about, but with no bones broken,, was picked ui> from '-. mO ngst the bonlbers by a teamster, and drven to her homo.

(PRE3S ASSOCIATION TELKGRAMS.) 1 NELSON, March 3. Daniel George Gilbertson. aged sixty, was fonnd dead at Sandy Bay. o GRBYMOTDTH, March 3. At the adjourned inquest on James Walker,. who was found drowned in the Hochstetter tunnel workings, the theory of Mr Bishop, Inspector oi Mines, was that deceased was overcome by fumes from the oil-engine exhaust pipes, the latter having had an outlet on a separate incline to the drive. The pipes showed a leakage in nearly all the joints, and the air current had been reversed. There were no special regulations dealing, with oil-engmes underground; neither was it necessary to notify the Department that such were iu'nse. The inspector, m reply to a' question, expressdd the opinion that the regulations concerning noxious fumes from steam-engines also ap-. plied to- oil-engines. The doctors testimony supported the theory that Walker died from iconoxido poisoning he having a lower resistance than normal through an extensive adhoroiice to the right lung chest wall. A verdict that death was due. to monoxide poisoning was returned.