ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 14525, 29 November 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Terence Butler, aged forty-five years, and fincle, a butcher living in Grove fitreef, Mii.-iselbargh. was thrown from his cart i\w morning near .Murray, Robert's, the hoivto lolling. Ho fell upon his shoulder, which was hurl, and bo was taken Ut the hospital, v,.here he now lie 6. Mr C. (.'. Graham held an inqueet yesterday inttehihg the death of Mr G. C. llak' r, viho dropped dead by the side of iiic daughter on rfalinday afternoon, immediately after he iiad put a coin into a hospital. c(.!lcctii;i! box. The cvide.neo of Di Ool<-,uhoun t bowed that deceased's heart had been a!k'ci"d for years. Some three years .r/o the doctor had warned deceased that his. heart v.ac. in a. serious ktatc. and thai he would have, to be extremely careftil nut to i'.itienif• himself in any way. Wit. ia:;■.'■. w;ii> not fturj.')-i«d at Mr Baker's death, but rather wondered thai ho had lasted m> long. 'Jlie Coroner recorded a veidht that the cr,:t-:e of death wue eynco.ie. the :u>uit of heart Disease. William J'.u'krr (iifty;. a gumdigger. was walking from Kaiiiu to Ka.i-.iwi last Saturday iiiaht. when he was knocked down by a 'pa.v-i:i ; ; horseman. Ilk mate subsequciitly found hi:n on the road, but, thinking tii;>i ho wa« intoxicated, left him. Parker was discovered on Sunday morning, and yesterday albineon was brought down fr, the hospital, where he died last evening. An inquest wa<= <.|,ei;ed this inoniing, aid adjourned till Monday next. The police aie investigating the matter, and charges are to }>'■ laid attaimt three horsemen allied \~, be i-s; unoibio for tho fatality.— BargaviHc P.A. wire. At Strath rd his; Saturday the threo-yoar-oid dauiiiiter of Mr lVirctt. a farmer, was knocked down and trtunjiled on by a cow on her lather's f.-nn. At the time no t-erious injurv was apparent, but the child died to-day." At the inquest tokening the death of .M'Cuin. who was urn over by a train near Shannon isayp. a lx.-vin ]'. A. wire), the evidence, cletiriy rh'Jwcd that he veur, drunk at the time. A verdict was returned that death was caused by l«ing accidentally ra.i over by a train. The coroner corn-r.:e::d-.:d the railway cfikials for the mealier in which t!: y had acted. The Naj.l-.'-.- johco have, received in formation from T;.r.!.w-ra that Mr Duncan M'Kay, the proprietor of the Hot Springs Rote), wu, found dead cany this .Yicrjdiitf with a revolver beside him.—Nspier P.A. Will!. A:i hvyiv.l v.rx held at Kait-a.ngata y«s----t-rdr,y touching tka- dcailh of CfcrietcpiM-r John .'.on ftwe:::vi, v.r.:> was drcwn*d in tho'}\:ii:au-. ita'catta: hi Saturday momiii'r. 'J he " i'r':e Prees' rc-pcrts that after evidence had beon given, which £Jiow*d thyt, th: body was fonr.d in vratnr 6ft d-iin, the jury rotttrr.cd a verdict that death was cKaxi by accidcr.tcl drowning whilst bathing. They added a rider": " Tiiat the jury are of opinion that some stens fhould be taken to provide swinimii'ig bath- for ihe. Vj-.vn." \\hen Mr W. Tord (who has been conducting services in the Anglican Church, Owaka, for come mouths past) was riding up the Owaka Valley on Sunday to conduct services th.'-ic, the girth of the saddle btokc. and 'no fed oil and broke an arm abovo ih-j elbow (.says the 'Free Vreea'). It was to hr.ve, bean Mr Ford's last Sunday at Owaka, he- having received notice of txausfer to Auckland.