ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 147, 22 June 1904, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

AN ASSfLUAr PATIENT DROWNED. A female patient of the Porirua Hosj)ital for Mental Diseases named Mr». li. Davis was found diowned in a water sink about 5 o'clock liwt evening umkr circumhtunce.s wliicli indicate .i cube of suicide. The Coroner, .Mr. Jus. Ashctoft, is holding u'i iuqucbt at t-he Asylum this afternoon concerning the death. Attracted by culls for help about 16.20 bust night, Constable Murphy went to Whitmore-slreet and found a trimmer belonging to the ste-airier Corintbic numed Chas. Smith, who »aid he had been knocked down by a train, and feared that liih legs bad bt:v)> broken. The coiistuble examined the man, and found thikt hi.s lej^s although very .severely bruised wero not broken. He llieu took the suifcrer to the Police Station, applied a fiv^t aid treatment, and afterwards took him to the Corinthie, where he is imjw being tickled in tho ship's hospital by the surjjeon. Smith, who was perfectly .sober, said bo had *nt» idea that he wius on the railway clossing when tho train ttlmck him. Wlu-n ascending the step* leading fiom Clyde-(juay to Koxburgh-Mreet about 8.30, lust evening, John Koain.s, a collector, etc., for tin- Singer Sewing Machine Company, (.ripped and fell backwauls, injuring hi* head rather severely and beconiing unconscious. He was attended by Dr.' Young, who put sevenrl utitclK* in a wound over the right eye, and then ordered bis removal to the> Hospital. A fouitecu-months. old child named Mihlwd Hobbo. of Aithur-wlr^'t. wa« admitted lo the llo.sptiU Ihml evening, suffering fiom a broken thigh caused by v full •from it baby carriage. TJii) huh l'ha«. Stone, wven years of age, who was udmill.'d to l'\w ll«f>pital from Petono lost, Monday Miilering from v pea -rifle pOlet in his thigh, is still in a HCiittus <v;«}iJi»M. )l jijipeuiw that bow;i» prtHfting a high fence ne«r Ihu sandhills at Potone, behind which seforal boy« were .shooting at a bottle, when one of the pellets came tluougli an opening and struck him as above Mated.

A sensational elopement Inu (says the Ueiald) occurred in Wanganui within Ihe las>t few days, the individuals concerned being a mairied mart and it single girl. The pair are bclicveil to' have gone to A-ustmlia. Mr. E Allen, of Tawa Flat,, who has token »ai: interest in school inatleis for some time past, lias been nominated for v seat on the Wellington Education Bu'ird. I A groom named Alfred Chns. Ncvdham (his afternoon pioceeded against Dr. Mai tin for the recovery of £2 os for a week's wages and board in lieu of notice. For (ho defence it was contended that' 1 plaintiff was engaged by the day only. Dr. A. M'Ailhur, S.JL, held that pluhilifl had not proved his cuse, und gave "uleatiit for defendant without costs.