ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 504, 11 May 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

'SUDDEN DEATH AT KARORI. ■ Thoipolicjswero 'advised yesterday of the : mdden death,: on .Sunday, of Mrs. '. Smith Lancaster Street, Karori. Mcdical aid was sought, (jut. before Dr.; Gilray, who was summoned, arrived, ■ tho patient had expired. V :•# rengley:i had, .attended : 'forsome,time past, and was prepared to give a certificate as to tho cause of-death. This 'eing so, Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., (Coroner, did .not : deem .an .'inquiry, necessary. THROWN-FROM A BICYCLE. Earned t A, P. White; residing ini froni lixsjibioyclo , ■ .cycling , flown ■ Grant Road yesterday 'WSr-fr -<-.■;}* -t appears. • that the .machine , , smaded, and throw tho rider up against a Sonpro™. wall., He . .recovered; sufficiently :to eo ~to .his work, but later ■in the .day had to go ihome and-take to bed. Only • ; ' r 'drom»ed 9^Lßo^ C!l ß g '' WlUtO • W,S Tery nearly FALL FROM A BUILDING. working at.a.now building on Wol- ; , ' iington TeiTace, .yesterday, Jamos Vaddell, a , 42 .-years:. : of .agoJVresiding-at' 52 Adelaide Road, fell a distanco of about 15ft, ana broke-a small : bono in his a'liklb. ••'Tlio"lnjured man was taken to tho hospital for treat-' ment: KViT <]>>* * t j ■ ,•«»I.j-; *<v=''

J SIGNIFICANT FLOTSAM. ■ .-hvl . FHESS, ABSOCIATION.)' * r *•• • ' Nolson, May 10 i°j S ?t- c for Mr. - % Q. •••W.wLightband' and ; M a f r y Jackson, who are missing from i anQ dian canoo at.llabbit Island, wascon-" ' / tinned •••.• partly-submerged canoe was seen by . ..persons who woro sailing :in a boat,' bui they >:2° ..approach 5 it.owing to the wind" ■ a rCanoo , is "'ho •:longer. -visiblei' • J ll r ■' "A slouch hat belonging to.Lightband,, an. unmarked, handkerchief, a ~ belt \nth the naino'"H. D. Jackson," and ...iour. loaves of bread, in a sack* near whore . .. tho canoo was seen, havo beon found,' but ;V. vV,?-0 *tracev/of>;theinis'siiig -boatmen^; V; lt \^ a ? a fatality has. occurred, -. . 'tho faintest hopes only -are entertained //v

\ TIRED OF LIFE. • v - Thames, May 10. An inquest regarding the death of Elsie • vJohnßton j : .found:.drowned in the Kauaeranga Itivor, elicited tho fact that: deceased left a nope aadressed; to, her family;expressing her - ■ .end, it-, all. .■ Her home life had been happy and comfortable. She wanted tor, notping. A verdict- of suicido whilst temporarily insane. was returned, Somo - years v - ago.-.a - cousin/ of .the; woman drowned: herself ■ ■ at. almost the .aame spot. l ;,<r, KNOCKED DOWN BY'A TRAIN. • / No/son, May 10. :V\-:!- v^A™rt^ T named ' ® a " wa ? Knocked doivn by a tiain at Toitoi X^,? y * a fracture of the .'■">• WW •. ■ W O / child-: is, makingfavourable progress. _ 1 FOUND DEAD. TO.ii Whangarel, May 10. ? m j9r ' aged,eighty;years, an old — J®? 1 ?® 114 of ■ Manngakaramea', was found : dead this mornmg an a hut where .he lived: ! He Had been ailing for some time past -