ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 152, 27 December 1899, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] MELBOURNE, 25th December. A sailor on the steamer Edina had one of his legs torn completely off through his foot catching in a hawser. CHRISTCHURCH, 25th December. Jas. Kellick, plumber, fell down the Bteps at the Hereford Hotel "dive" on Saturday night. He was sent to the hospital, but the doctors there said there was nothing serious the matter, and sent the man to the look-up. He was found dead in the cells on Sunday morning. At the inquest to-day Dr. Symes said the brain showed chronic alcoholism, and the man must have died whatever attention he had received. A verdict of death from compression of the brain through a fall, aided by constant drinking prior to that, was returned. INVERCARGILL, 25th December. A girl named Grace Hay, 10 years old, daughter of the hotelkeeper at Cromarty, was killed on the 10th inst. by the overturning of a trolley. AUCKLAND, 25th December. At an inquest on the body of John Davies, a carpenter, who fell down a staircase at his residence and broke his neck, the verdict of Accidental Death. One of his daughters said he came home a little the worse for liquor at midnight. Ursula Walsh, two years of age, fell into a creek at Pokeno- and was drowned. A young Maori woman on the 17th inst. stumbled into a boiling hole near Ohinemuri, and was scalded^ up to the waist. She succumbed to her injuries yesterday. On Thursday last some, boys were playing at Ponsonby at soldiers with wooden guns. In a "charge" a boy named Smith got a severe blow with one of the guns m the stoinaou. xxq was taken" home, and succumbed to his injuries yesterday. CHRISTCHURCH, 26th December. A woman named Annie Davis, alias Dudfield, was found dead in a clump of trees in a paddock near Montreal-street yesterday, She had apparently used the place for sleeping in for some time past. DUNEDIN, 26th December. Mr. David Leighton, chief clerk in the gas department ol the City Council, died suddenly from congestion of the lungs, resulting from an attack of influenza. The Rev. A. P. Lingard, assistant curate of St. Mary's, died from inflammation of the brain, after a few aays' illness.