ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10257, 27 January 1894, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Special to Press Association,! ST PETERSBURG, Jan. 25. A passenger and a petroleum train came into collision between Samara, on the Volga, and Orenburg. Fifteen people were burnt to death. BRISBANE, Jan. 26. The steamer Kanabookar has foundered in the Gulf of Carpentaria. A boat containing a portion of the crew was picked up at sea, and the rest of the men ore believed to have landed safely. Assistance is being sent. The Kanabookar foundered forty miles from London last Friday during a terrible gala. Heavy seas washed away tho deckhouse and the wheel and did other damage. The after hold filled with water and the pumps were useless. A passenger, named Gale, perished onboard, but the remainder got away from the steamer. One boat, on nearing the shore, capsized, but the men were rescued with difficulty. [Per Press Association. 1 AUCKLAND. Jan. 26. A son of William Smith, settler, aged four years, was drowned in a creek near W&iuku.

A man named Allan Ward met with an accident at the A goods shod yesterday morning. He was working upon a stack of corrugated iron, when ho slipped and fell on to the bsd of the crane, a distance of about six feet, his back striking the edge of the bed. lie was taken to the hospital, where he was attended to. Mr George Cholmondoley, oldest son of Archdeacon G. J Cholmondeley, of Opawa, died suddenly on Thursday. The young man, who has for the past ten months been studying sheep farming with Messrs Fleming, at Port Levy, was, with Mr George Plenaiug, engaged mustering sheep on Thursday afternoon. He then appeared in perfect health. In the course of the mustering the doceaosd was parted from Mr Fleming, who was working a little higher up the hill. Upon missing his companion, Mr Fleming went in search of him, and not more than a quarter of au hour from the time when the two parted, ho found young Oholmondeley lying in an unconscious state, apparently suffering from the effects of a lit. He never regained consciousness, and gradually sank, dying about half an hour after Mr Fleming found him. A telephone message was sent to Lyttelton, and the body was brought up _ to Port late on Thursday night. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the Mitre Hotel, before Mr E. Beet-ham, Coroner, and a jury, of which Mr PA Eacioliff'e was chosen foreman. Dr Pairman deposed that the

cause of death was apoplexy. The jury 1 returned a verdict in accordance with the 1 medical testimony.