ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 13949, 4 January 1906, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

An old man named Fletcher, who was living by himself in a two-roomed house in Madras Street North, was found dead in his house yesterday morning. Ho had been rather eccentric for some time and lived apart from his family. Dr S>vmes gave a certificate that death was due to heart disease, and no inquest will be held. A man named Sathuel vvilson was admitted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from a broken ankle. He was carting hay at iticoarton when the horse he was driving was startled and broke away. "Wilson slipped on the hay and foil from the top of the load to the ground. On New Year’s Day, after the conclusion of the Met liven sports, Mr Thomas Nee, a well-known farmer, tripped on a loose stone and fell heavily on his head, causing a fracture of the skull. He has not yet recovered consciousness, and the case is r-eeiarded as ssaiaxtsC