DUNEDIN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11557, 19 April 1898, Page 5

DUNEDIN NEWS.

rPaa Press Association.] DUNEDIN, April 18. The Eev A. Chodowski, of Brisbane, has been appointed Jewish Eabbi at Dunedin. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. [Pas P»?.ss. Association.! GISBOENB, April 18. The word “ inadvertently ” was dropped out of the message recording the verdict of the jury at the inquest on James I Stevenson, which should have read “ That the deceased died from alcoholic poisoning acting on a weak heart, accelerated by a dose of carbolic acid taken inadvertently.” The foreman remarked that there was no evidence to show that Stevenson knew what the contents of the bottle were. INVEECAEGILL, April 18. James M’Eenzie, aged thirty-eight, while hauling logs out of the bush at Colao Bay with an engine, met with a fatal accident. The cant hook gave way and flew forward, penetrating his side, and an iron plate struck him violently in the abdomen. M’Eenzie, who was a married man with five children, died from his injuries. THAMES, April 18. William Bennett, aged about sixty-five, an Omahu settler, died suddenly this afternoon in the Magistrate’s Court while giving evidence in the case of Crane v. Thames County Council. The supposed cause is heart disease. John M’Dougall, while employed,in a railway truck at Lyttelton yesterday receiving timber from the steamer Eosamond, sustained a severe injury to his ankle owing to one of the slings slipping.