ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 9888, 27 December 1895, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lionel Close, a young man, was admitted to the hospital to-day suffering from a fracture-of the. left Ig, caused by slipping on a stone at Leith Valley. Alfred Pilcher, aged five years, whilst bathing at Clive got beyond his depth and was drowned. ~ The irifant daughter of Mr Albert Fail, of Clive, was choked to death through milk which had coagulated, blocking the wind* The inquest on the body of the man burned to death in the Coromandel fire resulted in an open verdict. It is believed to be that of Mackerell, of Auckland, who had gone to Coromandel to try and get work in a store. Hie brother -lives at ffisborne,' and a Mr W. G. Allen, draper, formerly of Ponsonby, is a brother-in-law. Alfred Cook, aged nine years; was drowned yesterday in n dam at War nock’s factory, Auckland. He was playing on the dam. wall and fell in the water* The son of Mr Reston, gaoler at Mount Eden (Auckland), wap drowned while op an excursion to Pine Island.

Mr Alexander Milne, a very old resident of Marton, was in the habit of going to the Bonny , Glen Cemetery, the family burying place, and it is presumed that on Christmas Eve, in trying to'set fire to the gorse* he was overpowered by the smoke, the result being a spasm of the heart, and that he dropped forward on his face into the fire, death resulting. Deceased, who arrived in Wellington in 1840 by the Lady Nugent, settled in the Hntt, then went to Rangitiktei, where he has ever since resided. He leaves three daughters. 1 WELLINGTON, December 27.

The Mararoa made a very fast return trip from Picton last evening, coming across tbe strait in three and a-half hours. While she was coming up the harbor someone touched the lever of the hydraulic winch, and the chain and hook in ascending in the air caught a large gangway and hauled it a considerable height. On the lever being shut off this gangway fell to the deck, striking Michael Ash, twenty-one years, employed in Cable’s foundry, and a Miss Scnolefield,. Ash sustained severe injuries to his spine, and was removed to the' hospital in a precarious state, but Miss Seholefield’s injuries were not of a very serious nature. WANGANUI, December 27. Captain Gregor, well known throughout he colony, died suddenly last night at Kai Iwi, where he has been keeping a hotel for, some ye&rsc Ho-formerly the iohoonerS ' Walhopai -and Awaroa and the steamer Wakatu. IjCe died without _ any warning after dropping into his chaitv , , ■