ACCIDENTS A FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 22, 26 July 1893, Page 2

ACCIDENTS A FATALITIES.

* IBy Tilbqbaph.l I UNITED PBESS A.BSOCIATION.J Auckland, 25th July. A tourist named E. Herbert, of Melbourne, while looking at the sights at Wbakarpwarewa, Rotorua, without a guide, suddenly wont through tho ground up to Mb knee in scalding water. Ihe akin camo off his lesr. in an instant. He was dragged out by two other tourists, and ia being brought to Auckland. At tho inquest on the body of a woman found on the Takapuna beach, an open verdict was rotnrnea. The body was not identified . Nelron, 25th July. On tho 18th of May last, Mrs. John Limmor, wife of a settler at Motuc-ka, lefc homo iv the evening, and notwithstanding continued search, no trace was foumt of her till to-day. The woman had been in a melancholy state, and had kept herioom for 12 months till tho evening in question This morning her husband found the remains concealed in a gorao hedge. The flesh was off the bones, bnt the clothing haR been identified At tho inquest tho jury returned an open verdict, with a rider that gro's negligonco had beeu shown by those in charge of deceased. Napibb. 25th July. A station hand i.aincd Daniel Carkhill was drowned at a ford in tho Moawhanga River, near the settlement of that n*roo. "A. Tramp, Esq." of the New Zealand Herald, was nearly drowned at the same placo some time ago.