ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9448, 24 June 1891, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FATAL FLOOD. [Special to Press Association.] [Received June 23, at 11.30 a.m.] SYDNEY, June 23. The weather is moderating. Many of the rivers are in high flood, and one man was drowned. Nearly three inches of rain fell in twenty-four hours. [Per Press Association,] AUCKLAND, June 23. A half-caste boy named Arthur Davis, aged two years, died suddenly at his parents* residence, Newton, last night. As no doctor had attended him an inquest is to be held to-day. DUNEDIN, June 23. John Pollock, a shepherd on the Morven Hills station, was killed by a fall from a horse. On Wednesday evening, at Washdyke, the horee attached to a dray took fright and bolted along the South road, near the meat preserving works. The driver, an old man, was unable to chock the animal and the dray was capsized. A young man arrived just in time to prevent serious consequences, as the driver was thrown right under the horse's feet. • At Washdyke last week, a lad in the employ of Mr Young, baker, of Timaru, was driving a horse and cart past the railway station, when the animal was star bled by some moving trucks and bolted. The road being narrow the horse soon ran into the fence, and the cart overturning, both shafts were broken. The driver escaped uninjured. An inquest on the body of the infant child of Thomas Joines was held at Springfield yesterday, before Captain Preece, Coroner, and a Jury, of which Mr E. J. Shanks was chosen Foreman. After hearing the evidence of the nurse, who was in attendance, and that of Dr Meadows, a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. Shortly before 2 p.m. yesterday, one of the horses in Mr Lakey's Sydenham drag took fright at a tramcar at the corner of Cashel and Colombo streets, and brought the vehicle into collision with the verandah of Mr M'Cutcheon's boot shop. The pole of the drag was broken, but no further damage was done.