ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9926, 4 January 1893, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Special to Pkess Association.] LONDON, Jan. 2. Skating fatalities continue, and in the last four days thirty-two people have been drowned in England. NEW tore:, Jan, 2. During the height of the gale in which she was caught, tho Umbria poured oil on the water with good effect. The passengers behaved splendidly, and gave no sign of panic. The insurances on the vessel and cargo amounted to over a million sterling. The s.s. Gallia, after sighting the Umbria in a disabled condition, proceeded on her voyage, having misunderstood the signals.

[Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. At Pahiatua this morning a carpenter named John Thompson dropped dead in a yard in which he was working. Death is eunposed to be due to syncope. DUNEDIN, Jan. 3. James Mollison, aged eleven, son of Mr Benjamin Mollison, of Oamaru, when stepping off a tram going to Mornington last evening, was knocked down by a car which at that moment was coming down High street towards town. The front wheels passed over his body, and death must have been instantaneous, the internal organs being crushed, while the breastbone and spinal column were broken. Deceased was spending his holidays in Dunedin. At the inquest touching the death of the boy James Mollison, of Oamaru, the bulk of the evidence went to show that the boy had jumped off a car with his face in the opposite direction to which it was going, and fell underneath the dummy of a down car that was just passing. A verdict of “ Accidental death ” was returned. An inquest was held yesterday morning, before Mr E. Beetham, Coroner, and a jury, of which Mr W. P. Beatson was chosen foreman, at the house of Mr George Abbott, gardener, Leinster road, St Albans, on the body of hia son, Henry August Abbott, four and a half years of age, who was drowned in a tub in a shed at the back of Mr Abbott’s house on Sunday afternoon. The evidence showed that the child went into the back yard to play with his ball, and that his father went to look for him and found him lying on his back in the tub, the water in which was five and a half inches deep and covered his face and neck. His legs, from the knees down, were banging outside the tub and he was dead. The ball was floating in the tub, which was eleven inches high and twenty-one inches in diameter. Mr Abbott took the child out of the tub, obtained assistance and sent for Dr Downes, who examined the child. He found food in the mouth, and the appearance of death from choking. The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental death.”