ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 583, 11 August 1909, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SUDDEN DEATH. Yesterday morning, Arthur Wellesley Foden,' aged 56, years, died suddenly at Karori. He had'been living with friends in the suburb for some time, and for about six weeks had been complaining of pains in the head and shortage ..of breath. About 5 a,m. yesterday ho became worse, and a doctor was sont for, but could not attend.' Thb ambulance was then summoned, and at 8 a.m. tho suffering man..was being put into it for .'removal to the hospital when he suddenly expired. An inquest will be. hold at the Morgue at 3 o'clock this afternoon. KNOCKED DOWN BY A CAB. What might have been a serious accident took'place late on Monday night on Lambton Quay. As a cab was being driven past the , Central Hotel, a ' young man named Langmear; employed as a car waiter on the Auckland express, stepped off the footpath and was knocked down by the vehicle. The occupant of the cab, Mr. E. T. Williams, summoned Dr. Fylfe to attend to the injured man, and . then conveyed him -to the hospital. It was found that Langmear's injuries amounted to nothing more serious than a scalp wound, and shortly after his admittance to the;hospital he was allowed to go to his home at Thorndon. ' DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. . . (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! . Hawera, August 10. 1 Andrew Parkinson, aged six years, died yesterday whilst under chloroform for a slight operation. His heart was quite sound, and the doctors said the case was one of those unexplainable ones in which tlie patient cannot take chloroform. A RIDER INJURED. ■. Christchurch, August 10. Mr.' Gray, gentleman rider .froni Auckland, whilst riding Ben Fortune in the Hunters' Hurdle Race Handicap at Riccar--1 ton, to-day received'injuries which' necessitated his removal to hospital: Ben Fortune fell when attempting-to jump tho first /set of hurdles, and Mr. Gray was thrown.-: At the hospital,it.was found that some of his !ribs hadbeen fractured. ,■ : DIED AT HIS, WORE; . \ Hastings, August 10. John '; Ryan, .aged 62, -'a farmer, 'at Whakatu, was found dead sitting on harrows ;he .had'teen working., He had been suffering ;from-..heart'disease'.' ! FOUND IN THE' WAIROA RIVER. . Dargavillo, August 10. Thomas Waldron, blacksmith, of Wanganui, arrived'.-here on July '29, and. disappeared- the same night. It is reported that his body was found yesterday in the Wairoa River at Toko Toka. An inquest will be held to-day. ' ' ' . WHILE DIGGING A GRAVE. ■- I; ,■ _ . Hamilton, August 10. Whilst digging a . grave this morning in Hamilton East cemetery, an old, man named William Joseph R'ovell, employed. as sexton for many years!, fell down dead; 1 ' • ,