ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11580, 16 May 1898, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

An inquest was held at the Courthouse Kaiapoi, on Saturday morning before Mr Bishop, Coroner, and a jury of ..six, who chose Mr A. H. Hunt, foreman, touching the death of John Bnrridge, who was found dead in a vvharo near Mr J. Monk’s farm, North Road, on Fridaymorning. Constable Cartmill called Arthur Bloomfield, T. Robinson and T. Ray, mates of deceased, who stated that they had no reason to suppose he would take his life. They last saw him alive at about nine o'clock on Friday , morning. They knew deceased had borrowed a gun, and, hearing a report, they went to the building and found their mate dead, his head almost blown away. Dr H. C. Parsons gave medical testimony, and Constable Cartmill testified to finding letters in deceased’s pocket, proving him to bo John Burridge, of Sussex, England. The jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound mind. SUDDEN DEATH. * Captain Frederick Bailie, for many years postmaster at Sydenham, died suddenly in the Sydenham tram shortlyafter one o’clock on Saturday afternoon. He had been Buffering from heart disease for a considerable time, and hasl been attended by Dr Nedwill. In the morning he seemed in his usual health. When the tram was near Huxley Street, he was seized with a kind of fit and, gasping, sank hack on his seat and died almost immediately. The tram was stopped, medical assistance was sent for, and the deceased was taken to the house of . his brother-in-law, Mr Anthony, with whom he resided. Dr Diamond, who was promptly at hand, pronounced life to be extinct. Captain Bailie, who was sixty-six years of age, had held a commission in the 65th Regiment, in which he served throughout the Maori war. -He had been for fifteen years in the postal service, and was for ten years postmaster at Sydenham, which position he resigned in i 893. About three years ago he took a trip to England, and visited his brother. General Bailie, at South Kensington. Captain Bailie, who was much respected, was a cousin of the late Mr Crosbie Ward. The funeral will take place this afternoon, a service being hold in St Saviour’s Church, Sydenham, previous to the interment at the Barbadoes Street Cemetery. J. Grose, a member of the Club, while playing in a match on Saturday, received a kick on the head from another player, which caused a severe cut. He went to Dr Moorhouse, who found it necessary to put four stitches in the wound. A boy, eight years old, son of Mr Bushell, of Longbeach, fell off a trolly on Friday, and was run over by it. He was taken to the Ashburton Hospital by his father, but died before the township was reached. (Ter Press Association.! AUCKLAND, May 15. An old identity, Mrs Greenwood, aged seventy-three, -was found. unconscious in her bathroom this, morning, and died shortly afterwards. ' . NEW PLYMOUTH, Mat-14. A man named Guffie, overseer of Hursthouse’s road party, was brought in. to the hospital from Awakino on Friday evening with a badly fractured leg, the result of a bush-felling accident. He had to be carried on a stretcher for twenty miles, and another twenty on an express. ’ .