ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CII, Issue 11948, 20 July 1899, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Press Association.] STRATFORD, July 19. A woman named Mary Ami Parker, sixty-seven years old, was killed on the East Road on Monday evening by the overturning of a dray in which she wa& coming to Stratford. An inquest was held last evening, and a. verdict of accidental death returned. The evidence showed that the driver stopped the team to give them water. They bolted and ran off the road into a swamp. The woman was carried to the Toko Hotel, but died before the doctor arrived. WELLINGTON, July 19. Constable Poland, one of the best known members of the force at Wellington, slipped in getting off tlie express and fractured the small bone of Iris ankle. DUNEDIN, July 19. Samuel Harris, one of the pioneer diggers, died while being conveyed from' Beaumont to Lawrence Hospital. He was seventy years of age. ANOTHER DEATH IN LYTTELTON GAOL. Jonathan Kay, an old man who was remanded from the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court to Lyttelton yesterday for medical treatment, died in the gaol shortly after being admitted. Deceased was an elderly man, and was charged with being drunk, etc. He appeared in Court in a wretched condition, and on the way to the railway station he had a couple of fits. He reached Lyttelton at 11.20 a.m., and was taken to the gaol in a cart, where he gradually sank, and died at 1.15 p.m.

Just before seven o’clock on Tuesday evening a wharf labourer named H. Jones, who was working in the hold or the steamer Talune, at Lyttelton, met with a severe accident. A sling of grain was being lowered into the hold when it swung round, and striking the side of the hatch, fell on, the unfortunate man. He was badly crushed, and Dr Pairman, who was sent for, ordered his removal to his home.

Mrs Andrews, a resident of Lyttelton, died suddenly at her house in Dublin Street yesterday morning. She had been suffering from a severe cold, but was not regarded as being seriously ill. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon before Mr R. Beetham. Dr Pairman, who made the post-mortem examination, said that the immediate cause of death was a clot of blood on the heart. A verdict in accordance- with the medical evidence was returned.