ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 337, 26 October 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(nr TELEGRAPH—MESH ASSOCIATION.) TREE FALLS ACROSS A TENT: A MAli', KILLED. ■• : : . Wahganul, October 24. • Last night a tree fell across a' tent a! Parapara, Upper Wangamu district,' occupfet by two men named John Scally, son of a well-known Wanganui resident, and ' agec 7 about 40 years, and Thomas Ryan. Tlit former was killed and Ryan injured, but not seriously. SUDDEN DEATH. Dannevirke, October 24. Mrs. Barraclougli, wife of Dr. Barraclough, died suddenly at Takapau last evening. Aj - inquest will be held. OLD AGE PENSIONER'S DEATH. ' / Duncdln, October 24. _ . Mr. Lachlan M'Donald, a very old resi. dent of Glenore, was accidentally killed about Mount Stuart this morning by the Lawrenct train. Deceased was very deaf and 'had beer ropeatedly warned to keep off the line. H« was an old age pensioner, and was well knowr throughout , the district. INQUEST.. ~ • Chrlstohuroh, October 25. i An inquest was :held-this afternoon at th# j morgue, before Mr. H. W. Bishop,-District Coroner, on James Gallagher, an old age pensioner, who died this-morning, at Chreyke Street. After hearing evidouce, the coroner, who sat without a jury, returned, a verdict of death from heart failure, following general peritonitis. . . i - FATAL FALL FROM A HORSE.., (BI TELEOIUrII—PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Napier, October 25. Mrs. Phyllis Brooke, aged about 40, who was employed as barmaid at the Criterion Hotel, met with a fatal accident while out riding to-day. Her'horse refused to pass a trap on the Petane Bridge at Port Ahuriri, and turned round and bolted to near the corner of Shakespeare and Battery Roads. Mrs. Brooke was thrown and she was dragged foi a short distance. Her skull was fractured, and she died at the hospital about thres hours, later. She has a son at Studholms ' Junction and a brother at Clinton. The infant child of Mrs. Parks N oi' Rhodes Street, was admitted to the hospital last night suffering from scalding of the mouth and throat, the result of drink-, ing hot liquid. "