Accidents and Fatalities.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 111, 11 May 1889, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

|Bt Telegbaph.J | united press association.] Blenheim, 10th May. A sadden denthocoured atTuamarina last night. Poter Morris, a highly educated remittance man, died of asthma. His brother, in India, is a Lieutenant-Colonel of the 60th Bifles. A. man named Michael Dowling died today, while undergoing an operation for oancer, at the Hospital. He had chloroform against the advice of Dr. Cleghorn, who operated. Mr. Nairn administered the chloroform, and before the operation was over the patient suddenly ceased to breathe. 6iBbobne, 10th May. A Maori girl named Maria Munn, eight years of age, was burned to death at Waiapu on Monday. Carelessness was shown on the part of her parents, but no inquiry has been held. Auckland, 10th May. J. Wakefield, a lodger at the Imperial Hotel, leaped from a three-story window of that building to the pavement, a distance of 60 feet, tbia morning. His left arm was broken, but otherwise he was uninjured. This Dat. Kanieri, a native, was cleaning a gun at Whetanroto, when it went off at half-cock, and shattered his hand. Charles Home was very badly scalded about the arms and head by an accident while removing a boilor from a fireplace. Nelson, 10th May. At the inquest to-day on the body found on the Boulder Bank at Wakapuaka, a verdict _of Found Dead was returned. The medical evidence showed that death had occurred over two months ago. There is no clue to lead to identification.