ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 14497, 23 February 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Mr Aloxandur Forbes Orr. manager of Fullers' Opera-house at Cliristchnreh, was found drowned in the Avon towards Islington la*t evening. It Appears that lie went out alone in a cannc, and tint Millie Youths walking along tho bank of the river 'saw the canoe Hosting bottom upwards. A bov in a punt came along, and was assisting' to get the canoe to shore, when he saw Mr Orr's body beneath it. It is assumed that bv sunt) means the canoe overbalanced, and 'that Mr Orr was unable !,, <.'Xtiicatt> himoclf. Mr Orr came, from Wellington, whura his people reside. George Dixon, the second victim of the accident at Wilson's cement works, Warkworth, died in ♦in 1 Auckland Hospital hud right.—Press Association. An.elderly lnsn was knocked down by a train near ketone railway station last night and" terribly injured. He. died this_ morning. He his not been identified.—Wellington telegram. Isabella Dobsoii was admitted to the hospital yesterday afternoon, suffering from wi:unds in the throat, said to bo seli'-inflictrd. had been in ill-health. Slip is expected to recover. About, midnight Ida Rich, single, was taken to tho hospital suffering from phosphorus poisoning caused by eating matchheads. Her condition is not serious. Lawrence Moirigan (twenty-nine), chief steward of the steamer Daphne, was seized with cramp while bathing at Matakan.i. and died "in the water.—Auckland telegram.