ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 141, 15 June 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[B* MLWHUra— ftttiSS ASHO\rtttTO» ] DUNEDIN, 14th June. ' The inquest concerning the death of the Rev. Father' M'Grath, who lost hia life in a fire at Tapanui, was concluded today. Th 3 jury's verdict was that Father M'Grath's death was due to misadventure, throiigh the accidental destruction by fire of the Farmers' Cinb Hotel on the morning of Bth June John Stanky, 60 years of age, died suddenly fco-4ay . He had been complaining for swie time of feeling unwelL Dr. CoouniflE, wJm> was a friend, frequently ppfcecrjbed mtdiciae for him, and Mrs. Stanley n.pplk-4 to him for a certificate of death, but finding he was not qualified to give it, jrep'jited the -matter to the police.

Mr. X. M'Robie, Ute ot Wellington, and now part-proprietor of the Pabutua Herald, ha* been Dominated by the Pahiai.ua School Committee as a candidate for one of the three north country seat") on the Wellington Education Board. A fireman named Charles Reid, belonging to the steamer Indraghiri, who pleaded guilty before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M.. to-day to having assaulted John M'Naught, chief engineer of the vessel. His Worship said there was a difficulty in dealing with this class of case. The offence with which the defendant was charged was a serious one, and if committed by a man ashore would probably carry a sentence of two months' imprisonment. If «eamen who struck officers were sent to gaol it might lead to their being encouraged to commit these offences in order to get their pay and leave the vessel. The Indraghiri was leaving the colony in a few dayft and if the defendant was sent td gaol he would probably be foisted on us. His Worship subsequently decided to give the defendant one month's imprisonment, staling to the officer, "You have got rid of him, but he has got the better of us."