ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 11696, 30 September 1902, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

The inquest on Mary Ralph, who died suddenly at Denniston on Saturday after being given an emetic, resulted in a verdict of "Death from misadventure,"

James Edwards, of Christchurch, met with a distressing accident yesterday. He was attending to a water wheel, and was in the act of placing the chain on the driving wheel, when his co\t became entangled' in the cogs of the machine wheel. His left arm was drawn in and he was taken round th* shaft several times, eventually being thrown some distance from the wheel, his left arm being torn off and left hanging in the wheel No one was near, ana he walked fully ten chains for assistance. Every stitch of clothing was torn from his body. He was taken to the hospital, and was doing well at a late hour last night A narrow escape from a serious accident occurred at Hastings yesterday morning. As Mr R. Milton ,the newly-appointed man ager of the Union Bank, was lifting the bank's revolver from a drawer the weapon went off, the shot going through Mr Milton's cap and grazing his head, causing blood to flow freely. . Investigation, however), showed that no serious injury had been sustained.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 30. At the inquest on the child Rudolf Kelly, who was badly burned as the result of his nightdress catching fire on Sunday morning, a verdict was returned that death was due to shock.

AUCKLAND, September 30. William Porter, an elderly man, and driver of an express, fell off his cart in Coming to town yesterday afternoon, and died at the hospital at midnight from the effects of a fractured skull.