ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12427, 16 February 1901, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

—— COACH ACCIDENT. ' [Per Press Association.] NAPIER, Feb. 15. Messrs Cfowbher and Macauley’s Taupo coach came into collision this afternoon with a spring cart, fatally injuring two of the horses in the coach. One of the passengers, who jumped out, sprained his ankle. Subsequently two of the horses of the coach, carrying with them a portion of harness came into contact with a cab driven by J. Keating, who was thrown to the ground and considerably bruised about the head. ■' DUNEDIN, Feb. 15. William Brown, a single man, about thirty-four years of age, employed in some pottery works in South Dunedin, dropped dead this’morning. He had been ailing lately, but it was thought to be nothing serious. On Thursday Mr W. T. Barnes, a .stevedore at Lyttelton, lost a finger of his left hand while working at the s.s. Whangape. His hand was caught between a. hook and sling as a couple of bales of woolpacks were being hoisted from the hold. Yesterday afternoon, about three o’clock, when Mrs A. P. Tutton, of Rangiora, and the Misses Campbell, of Waltham, were driving in a phaeton from the beach at New Brighton the horse took fright at the City and Suburban- tram. The animal rushed towards the hoarding at the back of Mrs Morgan’s -tea) rooms, reared up on its hind legs, and fell. Fortunately ladies escaped without injury, but a shaft of Die phaeton was broken. Some residents rendered ‘‘first aid” by putting the ■injured shaft in splints. Another start was made hut the horse proving fractious -a resident drove the ladies home. When the old New Brighton Road Bridge was reached the horse again jibbed, breaking the repaired shaft again. .The difficulty this time was gob over by splicing a willow sapling to the shaft end with flax and the journey was completed without further mishap. An inquest will be held to-morrow afternoon, at Belfast, touching the -death of a child which died twelve hours after birth. An inquest was held at Southhridge, on Wednesday, before Mn C. H. Willis, J.P., Coroner, touching the death of Geprge Duncan, an infant, who had died in the licensed home of Mrs Buggis. A verdict- of death from peritonitis was returned, and the jury commended Mrs Buggis for the caxe she had taken of the child.