ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11122, 23 November 1896, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Press Association.]

LONDON, Nov. 21,

Spofforth, the well-known cricketer, was nearly suffocated in a fire in a, tea warehouse in London. PARIS, Nov. 20.

Two French torpedo boats collided off Brest, One sank immediately and the crew are missing.

DUNEDIN, Nov. 22.

A gold-miner, name unknown, was found dead in bed in bis hut at Deep Stream, twenty-two miles from Outram. He had evidently been dead for several days. POUND DEAD. Early yesterday morning two young men, named Pope and Orchard, found the dead body of a man lying on the road near Andrew’s Plaxmill, Waikuku. They informed the Kaiapoi police, who went out and brought the body to the Kaiapoi morgue, to await an inquiry. It appears that the man got a lift from Woodend in the Leithfield waggon, and by some means must have fallen out. It seems probable, judging from the marks on the body, that a wheel passed over him. The man’s age appears to be about fifty-four or fifty-six years, and it is believed that his name is Richard Gallon, and that ho had been living in a camp at the river Ashley. Early on Saturday morning ,a man named Michael Scanlan, a labourer, was found dead in his bed at Truckle’s board-ing-house, Ashburton. The man had been ailing on the previous evening, and MiTruckle advised him to send for a doctor, but deceased did not think his case of such a serious nature. At the inquest held on Saturday, before Mr Alfred Harrison, it was shown that deceased was subject to fits, and had died in one of them. A verdict was returned accordingly.