ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 32, 6 August 1912, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

f»T T»LEOBA?H— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] . WOODVILLE, sth August. Mr. Joseph Drinkwater, a very old resident of Woodvilie, died with painful suddenness on Saturday evening at 9.30 o'clock. He had been working all Saturday, and was iv his usual state of health. After supper at 9 o'clock he retired, and fifteen minutes later gave a gasp and was dead. No inquest will be held, as a doctor has certified that death was due to heart disease. The deceased was 14. years old, and wa6 one of the original Woodvilie small farm settlers, coming to the district thirty-five years ago. GORE, sth August. A young man namwt Hunter was found on Friday afternoon suffering from a pea rifle bullet wound in the head. He died at the hospital yesterday. An inquest Will be held this afternoon. WHANGAREI, sth August. A bushman known as "Jack the Australian," aged twenty-six, when attempting to ride across a ford of the Mangakania River yesterday afternoon wa*» swept out of the saddle and drowned. His body has not yet been recovered. HAMILTON, sth August. Later this afternoon a terrible accident occurred at the water tower which the Frankton Town Board is erecting on Frankton Hill. A young man, Neil Kennedy, was working with another under the floor of the tank, and in endeavouring to pass his mate Kennedy slipped from the scaffolding to the basement, a distance of 76ft. When admitted to the hospital Kennedy was unconscious, and his injuries were so serious that little hope waß entertained for his recovery. He died a little later. ASHBURTON, sth August. A nine-year-old boy named Edgar Healy, while going home from Fairfield School with two companions, was struck on the head by the engine of the express train bound for Christchurch. He was removed to the Ashburton *Hobpital unconscious,, where he died. TIMARU, sth August. , At the inquest on Ivor Allan Wilson, insurance canvasser, who was burned to death in his house on Friday evening by upsetting a kerosene lamp, evidence was given that he had been subject to •fits, and the nature of the burns audit cated that he was in' a fit at the time. Mr. George Coker, a- painter residing in Nelson-6treet, Petone, died suddenly at 12.25 p.m. yesterday. Dr. Ross states that death was due to heart disease, and consequently no inquest will be held.