ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 14002, 8 March 1909, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Maurice Edward Hughes, eight years of age, was drowned while bathing at Napier on Saturday. Tlie verdict at the inquest was "Accidentally drowned." Tho following riders were added :—"That tho coroner desires to call the attention of tho authorities to the ueelcssness of tho buoys at present provided for life-saving purposes. In lieu of buoys there should be provided life-saving belts, with at least 200 yds of suitable rope attached thereto. The coroner desires to direct public attention to the fact that a view of the body disclosed tho fact that a man, his wife, and three children lived in a one-roomed outhouse not more than 10ft long by 6ft wide, which was without ventilation of any kind. 'The body of the deceased was laid on a table alongside a sleeping child." A negro named Martin Pellot, employed as cook on the Hon. J. D. Onnond's Karamu Station, was so badly burned through tho place in which he slept catching lire on Saturday night that he died while being taken to Hastings. The body of a newly-born infant was found in tlie river at Christcliurch near the Barbadoes street cemetery.

The body of a man, much decomposed, was found in the river nea.r Ashburton. There is no clue as to the identity of the man.

A, P.A. message states that George Burnett, employed at Rullitone's saw-mills near Gladstone, in the Wairarapa, was drowned while taking his horses to bathe in a deep hole near the mill.