ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 72, 28 March 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[BY TELEGRAPH — I-HEHS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, 26th March. Jeannff M'Coll, a i- ingle woman, about thirty >ear» of uge, who kept house for her brother at Waitahuna Gully, died early yoterd.iy morning, in a house at Hnvelot k-*treet, Mornington, occupied by Mrs. Durst on. She left her brotner'n hou»t* on Saturday, 12th March, and came to Dunedin, apparently going to Mrs. Dtirotoii'M hou»e on the following Tuesday evening. Next morning twin* were born prematurely, and »h© died yestentay morning about 1.30 o'clock, just after Dr. Fitchett had bren i tilled in. , An iwiucitt wai> opened at the morgue tlii* afternoon, before the corouer (Mr. H. Y. Widdowhou), and w«« adjourned till Friday. DUNEDIN, 26th March. The Lawrence correspondent of the Star HtatfK that a scriouit accident happened thii morning to Ueorge Welch, of Beaumont, while driving a covered in j light waggon to j^awrtuac. lie \\u ou the top of the Big Hill Cutting, and a heavy gale of wind won blowing. Thi* overturned the vehicle, and hurled Welch from hit neat. He fell ou hi* head on the metalled road, and was apparently dragged toroo little distance tut the hornen Mopped. When picked up Welch wan in.MMi«ible, nnd was removed to the Tuapekiv Hospital. Dr. Sutherland, .who dieted the wound.-, i« not yet in a position to bay whether he will recover or not. CHIUSTCHUnCH, 27th March. Robert \Vm. Woodnll, 75 years of »ge, a retired farmer, who was admitted to the hoxpital on Saturday Miffering from au intestinal obstruction, died whilst undergoing au operation under etlier. At the inquest a verdictt war returned that death wan due to the t>hoik of the operation, and was not in any way connected witk the administration of the anaesthetic. DUNEDIN, This Day. Geoffiey Fisher, aged fourteen, who was shot in the groin by a pea rifle some dajs ago, died in the hospital this moming.

A record year in regard to revenue and shipping is reported by the Timaru Harbour Board for 1909. The revenue wan £29.000. an increase of £2.885 ; harbour rate £8063. or £400 more than 1908; and tr.ule 173.164 ton*, an increase of 16,272 tons. The shipping iiu reared from 434.262 tons to 477.561 tons, an inrrea*e of 43.299 ton.«. Direct imports amounted to 53.351 tony, as againt-t 44.889 torn for the previous year. It is claimed for the port of Timaru tlut it is third lii^heM on the li^t <if meat exporter*. The chairman. Mr. Ja»«. Craigic, in thin connection diaus attention to a curious anomaly in railway cbargex with respect to frozen meat, which require* to be tliipby the lnrgvxt earner*, not making Oamaru a port of call. "There is," he t-ays, "an uneatib factory position with respect to the railage charge* : The rate Oamaru to Port Chalmcrb — 72 mile* — is 12* 6d per ton, while for the le*-* di*tai*ce, Oamaru to Timaru — 53 miles — it is 18s 2d per ton." Attention has been drawn to tins curious difference, with no rpndt t to far A6 T imiili.iS£QgC£re{4 t