ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXI, Issue 13343, 23 January 1904, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Pup. Piucss Association’.] WELLINGTON. January 22. Hamilton William Brook, aged fifty, a labourer, bought a- piece of meat at a butcher’s shop at' Ohaupo yesterday, and immediately began eating' it in the road. He choked himself and died, in spite of all efforts to relieve him. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death from asphyxia. DUNEDIN, January ‘22. George Jones, brlckmaksr, of Milton, died suddenly at Gore-. He suffered from chronic asthma. While bathing in the Ashburton Domain ponds on Thursday, a lad named Gilmour got out of his depth, and, becoming exhausted, sank twice. Another boy named Miles Segers plunged in, fully dressed, and rescued him. A man named Edward Brnxlou was admitted to the Hospital last evening suffering from a severe cut on one of his hands, sustained through falling from a load of hay on to a scythe blade.