ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10271, 13 February 1894, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Special to Press Association.] LONDON, Eeb. 11. Princess Ina, daughter of Princess Beatrice of Battenburg, was thrown on her bead to-day while out riding at Osborne. Her injuries are of a rather serious nature. BRISBANE, Feb. 12. It has transpired that the seaman Cheshire is not among the survivors of the Kanahooka disaster. He is supposed to have been washed overboard during the storm. The British Indian Company’s steamer Dorundah, which was on fire at sea, has arrived at Java safely. A thousand bales of wool and forty cases of preserved meat have been damaged, while the vessel herself has also suffered considerably. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 12, A man named David Evitts was accidentally killed at Waitahuna, near Raglan, yesterday, while exercising a horse. Henry Richard Moody, a labourer and resident of Kihikihi, was found dead in some fern at the back of the hotel, with the remains of a bottle of " Old Tom ” by his side. The jury returned a verdict that death resulted from the effects of a sunstroke while deceased was under the influence of liquor. Yesterday morning a little girl named Margaret Ellen Rohan, whose parents reside at Church Street, Ponooaby, was accidentally killed near Te Aroha under distressing circumstances. The child, three and a half years of age, was up on a visit to her aunt at Waiorongomai, near Te Arohs.. She was in a cart with her aunt, Mrs O’Grady, driving to church at Te Aroha, when, by some accident, she fell out of the vehicle. The little girl was thrown to the ground with such force that her skull was fractured, and she died shortly afterwards. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 12. A hoy named Ollivcr was drowned yesterday whilst bathing in the Waingongora river. NELSON, Feb. 12. The complete list of names of those on board the Gazelle at the time of the wreck is now ascertained to have been as follows :—Captain Rogers ; A. Viking, mate j J. Anderson, J. Olsen, George Pefcfcerson (who was only called George), John Wilson (known as Tommy). James Miller (known as Andy) and H, J. Clarke (known as steward), the last six having shipped at Auckland; and Davidson and Quintal, who were saved. A fifth body was washed ashore on Saturday, hut baa not yet been identified. INQUEST. An inquest, touching the death of a boy named Thomas Wilson, who died at the hospital early on Sunday morning, was held at the hospital at 4.30 yesterday afternoon, before Mr R. Beetham, coronor, and a jury, of whom Mr J. P. O’Callagban was cbosoa foreman. Dr J. H. MurrayAynsley, house surgeon at the Christchurch Hospital, deposed that deceased was brought to the hospital about twelve o’clock on Saturday night. He was in a collapsed condition and suffering from peritonitis. He gradually sank, and died about two o’clock on Sunday morning. Witness had made a post-mortem examination. There was extensive peritonitis, and the stomach and intestines were very much inflamed. Deceased told witness that he Buffered from pains in his stomach after taking some soup at his employer’s place on Tuesday last. James J. Clelland, a farmer residing at Spriagston, deposed that deceased was a Burnham Industrial School boy licensed out to witness. The deceased had lived with witness for twelve months. He took ill after breakfast last Wednesday morning, and complained of pains in his stomach. Deceased had been in the habit of eating green psara, apples and plums, and on one occasion witness threatened to take him back to the Industrial School if ho continued to eat the fruit. On Thursday deceased became worse, and witness gave him hot drinks and gruel. Gave deceased some soup for his dinner on Thursday, but he became sick after eating the soup. To the Coroner: Thera were fifteen others at the table, and all partook of the soup witness gave deceased. On Saturday witness took the deceased to Dr Cook, who ordered his removal to tho hospital. Deceased, who was weak-minded at times, was ill last year through eating green fruit. B. Tofts, a boy, deposed that he was with deceased on Tuesday last. They had some green pears, and after eating a few deceased complained of pains in his stomach. Witness ate some pears, but they did not affect him in any way. Dr Murray-Aynsley recalled Thought that death probably resulted from the effects of the green fruit. Unless properly treated peritonitis would result. Owen Stace, a farm band, deposed that be saw deceased eating green fruit on Wednesday last. Deceased was a little weak-minded, but was capable of doing tho work required of him. The jury returned a verdict that death resulted from peritonitis brought on through eating green fruit.

Yesterday morning a rather exciting incident occurred at Rangiora. As the morning train to Christchurch was about leaving, a horse standing in a section alongside the line, at the High Street crossing, hacame frightened at the engine, made a leap at the five-barred gate leading to the street, which it cleared, and landed at the cattle,trap on the line. Attempting to cross, it went in. The engine by this time was close upon the animal, but the driver, rising to the occasion, managed to pull up within a few feet of it. Having broken one bar of the cattle-trap and displaced another, the horse managed to scramble out, and the train proceeded. On the animal being caught it was found that one of its front legs was broken, and it had to be destroyed. The horse, which was valued at £IG, belonged to Mrs Torlesse, and was being worked for a time by Messrs M'Clatohie and Co.