ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 10212, 14 January 1897, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Mrs Butement, wife of Dr Butement,*of Masterton, died there rather suddenly yesterday. Deceased was confined of twins on Monday. She was a daughter of Mr Chas. Coote, traveller for Messrs P. Hayman and Co., and was for many years a member of the Moray place Congregational Church in this City. \ Westbuoy, an employe* of Gibbons and Co., seedsmen, Wellington, who was kicked by a horse a couple of days since, and the woman Jessie Hay, who was burnt at Kereru, lie in the Wellington Hospital in a eritical condition.

Mr John Lawson, Official Assignee at Auckland, has identified by the number the watch found on the body discovered in the Manawatu River as that belonging to his son, who was accidentally killed at the railway bridge in the district while inspecting it as engineer. The deaths are announced at Wellington of Edward Whiting, an old settler and a well-known builder, aged seventy, and John Griffiths, late chief engineer of the steamer Herald, aged sixty-one.

WELLINGTON, Januaby 14.

Pat M'Lauohlin, night watchman on the ship Euterpe, was found drowned alongside the vessel this morning. When last seen at 1.45 a. m. he was quite sober. The cause of the accident is unknown.