ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 893, 12 August 1910, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

1 A PALL OP ROCK. (By Telcsi'upn.—Press Association.! ■ Pahiatua, August 11. A young man . named Nathaniel Brown, n son of W. Brown, Mangarama, was somewhat seriously injured yesterday afternoon by a fall of rock and earth while working in a, metal-pit. He wns taken" lionie, but was removpd to the hospital this morning. Several of his ribs are broken, and he is cut about the .head, and his spine is also believed to Ire injured. He never lost consciousness. - * .

THE NAHER CLIFF FATALITY. Napier, August 11. An inquest was held to-day touching Lhn death of Mrs. Blcwden, who ; was found unconscious at the bottom of a cliff a week ago and. who died in ,tho hospital on Wednesday. Evidence was given to the effect that tho fbnee at, tho. top of the cliff was dangerously low, and, the'coroner (Mr. H. W. Brabant) post- • poned his verdict till to-morrow morning, to enable him to inspect the spot. Tho medical testimony was to the effect that Mrs. Blewden had sustained a fracturo of .tho. base of the skull, and'that death had been caused by the oppression of blood on tho brain. She had been suffering from insomnia, and, for some time, had been depressed and melancholy. CHILD'S BODY IN THE AVON. Christchurch, August 11. ,An inquest on the body of a child found in the Avon was held yesterday. The medical evidence showed it to be tho body of a fully-matured female child, and it had been in the river about two months. Apparently it had. been stillborn. A verdict according to the medical evidence was returned. ' • FATALLY RUN OVER. ■ Christchurch, August 11. Moses Chambers, wharf .labourer, Lyttelton, 'fell off a traipcar coming from the. Riccarton racecourse this evening. One of the wheels passed over his head, and lie died almost instantly. FOUND HANGING. Timaru, August 11. Last night Patrick Agncw, about 50 years of age, was found hanging dead in a shed at Rockwood Homestead, Crickle\vood. DEATH OF A VETERAN. . An Imperial and old-age pensioner named Alexander Allen, seventy-fivo years of age, was found dead in bed in Jew's boardinghouse, Lambton Quay, yesterday afternoon. According Co" information supplied by the polico, deceased arrived in Wellington' from Neiv Plymouth on August 5, and five days later went to stay at .lew's boardinghouse. Yesterday morning he was found on tho floor of Ills room, and was put back to bed. Half a(i hont after noon yesterday he was found dead. Deceased, who served in tho Crimean War, has a son at Pctone, and his wife is living at tho Upper Ilutt with her daughter. An in- 1 quest will be held at the morgue at 11 a.m. to-day. I