ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10220, 14 December 1893, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Dec, 13. Mr Hitchens, of blood restorer fame, had a narrow escape from poisoning by chloral, taken to induce sleep. He was ! found unconscious, and three doctors, ; after using a stomach-pump, walking him I about, using an electric battery, Ac., for i an hour and a half restored him to coni sciousness. He is now fully recovered. | - DUNEDIN, Dec. 13. | Evans, a resident of North-sast Valley, j while attempting to put out a fire, received ; a severe scalp wound eight inches long, ; through falling against a door-post. SUDDEN DEATH. Between eleven and twelve . o’clock on Tuesday night, Mr W. Rice, died suddenly at hie residence in Sydenham. Early in the evening he went for a bathe at the Sydenham Borough Council’s bath, and with some members of the Sydenham Amateur Swimming Club, of which he was a member, indulged in a swim,, Immediately he - got out of the water he was seized with jan epileptic-fit,, and finding that he did not I come round, a message .was sent for Dr ; Anderson, who had Mr Rice conveyed to his home. Dr, Irving was sent for about nine o’clock, and did all in his power to save Rico’s life. Rice, however, became worse, and died as stated above. He was about thirty 5 cars of age, and leaves a,wife and four children. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs Rice in Sydenham, as her husband was highly respected in the borough, having been a prominent member of the Sydenham Football Club and Sydenham Amateur Swimming Club. Dr Irving gave a certificate to tao effect that deceased had died from an epileptic fit. BODY RECOVERED. The body of tho unfortunate torpedoman John M’Kenzie, who was drowned on Nov. 28, was recovered on the rocks at Hawkin’s Point, yesterday morning, and was brought to the morgue. The spot where the body was found is close to the scone of the fatality. The features were quits unrecognisable, ■ but the clothes beyond doubt the man’s identity, and in consequence no inquest will be held. Messrs .laborwood and Auty, two members of tho Permanent Force, recovered the body and brought it to Lyttelton in the Government launch. Shortly after one o’clock on Tuesday afternoon a young man named Herbert Soanes met with a. painful accident,on Crescent road, St Albans. He was riding an ordinary bicycle along tho road when tho tyro on the front wheel suddenly came off and became entangled with tho handle. Sonnes was thrown heavily on to tho road, and both hia elbows were dislocated by the fall. He also had a bone broken in ! one of his arms, but, notwithstanding his ! injuries he was able to go fo his home, where hs was attended to by the Doctors Deamer. Yesterday an inquest wns held at tho house of Mr Reginald Bray, Russell’s Flat, before Mr H. W. Bishop, Coroner, and a jury of which Mr James Field was foreman, on the body of Charles John Bray, an infant, aged one year and ten months, who was drowned on Monday evening in a spring hole, whence tho water for tho house is obtained. From the evidence of the mother, Louisa Bray, and of Henry Nowbory, it seems the child was missed for a few moments, and was found almost immediately after in the water, dead. The jury returned a verdict of “ Accidental death from drowning.” A seaman on the ship Invercargill, lying in the Tiunitu roadstead, on Tuesday received a severe blow on the head from a winch-handle pulled romik\ by a five hundredweight basket cf baliast. He was taken ashore to the Hospital, where the injury was found not to bo serious.