ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 10795, 2 December 1898, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Iq a boat accident near Auckland a youth named Robert Watt, eighteen years of ag% was drowned by the boat capsizing. William Troit, who was also in the boat, .\as savi d. The body of Walt lias been recovered. At the iuquest at Christchurch on H. T, Hen ly, an elderly man who died from the effects of an accident caused by being run into by a bicyclist, a verdict was returned of accidental death. The evidence showed that both deceased and the cyclist were trying to avoid a cart, and collided, and that no blame attached to the cyclist. At the adjourned inquest on the body of Alfred Heathcote, killed by falling from a train b tween Invercargill and Wairio last Saturday, a verdict of accidental death wta relumed, with a rider to the dT-ct that the ends of the carriage platforms should be wire-netted, and that bars should be placed at the sides. One witness had asserted thst •■v.-rybody but himself had been to blame for allowing Heathcote to travel or to go out to 'he car platform. The evidence now called was to the effect that while Heathcote showed signs of liquor he was neither -tepid nor incapable. In fact, before the ■rain started he called at the traffic office to arrange for a new ticket, his season expiring with that journey. One witness deposed that neither the railway officials nor the police would have been justified in preventing Heathcote travelling.