ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIX, Issue 9992, 22 March 1893, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Special to Press Association!. LONDON, March ~2o. Only part of the ship Templemore’a crew were saved, the remainder being drowned. Considerable anxiety ia felt for the safety of the White Star Line’s new cargo steamer Naroiic, which is several weeks overdue on the passage from Liverpool to New York. She had a crew of seventy on board. Two of her lifeboats have been found in the Mid-Atlantic. TOWNSVILLE, Maech 21. The three-masted schooner Eiierton has been wrecked. The crew was saved. The vessel was insured for £760 in the South British Office. [Pee Peeks Association.! OAMAEIT, March 21. Eofcert Stewart, farmer, Waitaki North, was thrown from bis buggy yesterday, and dragged some distance, fia is now lying unconscious. An accident occurred a few days ago to the second daughter of Mr James Brown, of German Bay, who, whilst playing, broke one of her arms. An inquest on the body of James Poppleton Horn, who was found dead ia hia house, Caledonian road, on Sunday, was held yesterday before Mr E. Beetham, Coroner, and a jury of whom Mr W. J. Neat'e was foreman. After hearing the evidence of Dr Devenish-Maaves, who bad made a post-mortem examination of the body, a verdict of death, from acute pneumonia and pleurisy was returned. The deceased was one of the early settlers and had held several public positions, among them that of a member of the Nelson Provincial Council, and he once unsuccessfully contested an election for the JSuperiutendency of that Province. Yesterday morning Mr and Mrs M'Aleer, of Gust, were driving to the Bsngiora market, and when near the borough their horse became unmanageable and turned tbe, trap over into the ditch beside the Oxford railway line. Mr M’Alesr escaped unhurt, but Ins ’wife was much bruised and shaken, although not seriously injured. Uhe was taken to the Plough Hotel, where she received every attention. The trap was considerably damaged.