ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11231, 31 March 1897, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

STARVATION AND THIRST. FPer Press Association]. NEW YORK, March 29. The steamer Yanario picked up . a lifeboat. belonging to the wrecked steamer Nazaire. Thirteen out 'of twenty-nine aboard, the boat when it left the sinking vessel had died of starvation aud thirst. SUDDEN DEATH. Thomas King, a well-known fanner at Totara Flat; Bennett’s Junction, who was a passenger by the Eyretnn train yesterday- morning, immediately after getting off at Kedapoi of beinv very ill, and requested the stationmaster to send for Dr- Murray. Ho was taken into the .office and placed in a chair, .but immediately fell out and expired. Drs : Murray and Parsons attended, but were too-late to render aid. The deceased,; who:had- apparently .been In the best ofs health, was on his way to the Eangioramarket. He . leaves a widow and six or seven children. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon before Mr Bishop, coroner, at the Courthouse. After the evidence of MessrsW. D.Humphreys, Herbert Meadowcroft, and Dr J. A. J. Murray (who had made anost mortem examination) had been taken, the Jury returned a verdict of death from heart disease. Shortly, after 2 p.m; yesterday, an accident which might have, ended seriously, happened at the corner of Manchester and Gashel Streets. A young man was riding on a bicycle when a pony in a trap, driven by a lad, swerved,' knocking the cyclist ■ down,; and .running right oyer him. The yonng. follow., -was a good deal bruised and shaken, anil the bicycle was wrecked.