ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1149, 9 June 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

4 ILLEGAL OPERATION. (By Telegraph—Prcse Association.) Auckland, Juno 8. At the inquest on Ruth' Curham, aged 1!), of Thames, the medical evidence showed that death was duo to acuto septic peritonitis, due to an illegal operation clumsily performed without the aid of anti-septics. A verdict in accordance with the evidence was icturned, the jury adding that there was nothing to show who performed the operation. CARRIED OUT TO SEA. Christchurch, June 8. The Collector of Customs reports that the captain of tlio s.s. Wairau on Sunday last picked up,- twenty miles seaward of Kaiapoi,. a brown punt, registered No. 98. This belonged to the missing man East, of Kaiapoi, who was last seen on Friday, and of whom all trace has since been lost. Tlio assumption now is that East, on leaving Kaiapoi on Friday night, to proceed to his fishing station at the Bar, must have fallen asleep in liis boat, and was carried out to sea. LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH. Dunedin, June 8. At the .inquest on Thelma Valguadar Austen, the child who was killed by a tram-car in George Street last Monday, the Coroner (Mr. Graham) returned a verdict that the fatality was pure misadventure, no blame being attachable to anyone. , FOUND DROWNEt). New Plymouth, June 7. The body of George Godfrey Boull'on, an man, carrying on business as a grocer and tobacconist, was found in the Henui River, near the cemetery, this morning. Boulton had been depressed lately. He left home yesterday morning, saying he had business to attend to in town, but as he did not return, search parties were sent ont. IJugal M'Girr, the young man who was injured by falling into a lift well on Tuesday, is still in a serious condition at his parents' residence, in Austin Street.