Accidents and Fatalities

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 139, 16 May 1891, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities

(PER t/NITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) Chbistchuuch. This Day. An elderly woman named Ellen M agin nes, of Doylestou, fell m the fife yesterday and' died this morning. N API KB May 11. A family named Stubbs, at Clive, had a narrow escape to-day. Water in which arsenic had been mixed for gardening purposes was used to make the tea. All the family were taken dangerously ill. Fortunately, the quantity of arsenic taken 1 was so large as to cause violent vomiting, and with medical attention all are recovering. Christcbturch, May 11. This morning the body of Win. McLennan, farmer, of Halkefct, was found on the Halkett road. His neck was broken, und his horse and cart standing by. He drove from Addington market last night, and is supposed to have met with an accident on the road. A man named Wm, Page, living alone near French farm, Akaroa, was found dead in his whare yesterday. Westport, May 15. The body of James Mitchell, one of the two young men missing since Wednesday, the 6th inst., was found in the Buller river this morning. The body was quite naked. So far there is no trace of Joyce, the other missing man. Both were single and residents of Charleston. Dunkdin, MiylS John and Thomas Quill, brothers of Mr William Quill, who lost his life on the West Coast in January, waited on the police with portions of their brother's skull, which they identified by the hair, to see if any inquest was necessary. The Coroner decided this wag not necessary.