ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
$ INQUEST AT CHHISTCIIURCH. lily Tclceraph.—l'rcss Association.] Cliristcliurch, October 21. lira. Ellen Egiin, aged S5 years, who r<* sklml with her sou, was found dead nbont 7 a.m. to-dav in her homo. At the inquest John I'jjan fctntcd Hint liis mother «.?nuvl in hor usiiaJ health last ni'Kht Br. WhoWor, who wns suninioned to tJio house, and who had made a poet-mortom examination, staled flint lie considered death was due to heart failure from de< poiipralioi), ncrdorak'd by (ho exci'S'ivo indulgence in alcohol, A verdict to that effect was returned. NGATIAURANGA GORGE SMASH-VP. In (ho NgahatirnTiKn Gorge on Saturday a brako, owned by Mr, A. lioore, JohnRonviMe, ciiptozrd and fell twenty foot into tlie (jorgo. The vehicle was loaded willi meat, nnd was bpiiijj drawn bv i\ iiair of horses, one of which gol out of hand. This was (.lio cnuw of Iho nec.ident. Arthur HontJey, (he driver, c* wiped injury, but one of (he hoivcs had t.wo lop broken and had to be destroy. (Hi. The value of (lie animal killed was .CIO, and it will east a considerable- sum to repair tlio brako. As a result of a collision with ,1 tramcar nt Kilbirnio on Salmxlay, I'rank Flit, who was driving a butcher's c,n+, was thrown out, Flit was taken to iho . hospital suffering from slight conouesioc of uio brain. t
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1266, 23 October 1911, Page 4
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225ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1266, 23 October 1911, Page 4
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