ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15332, 15 June 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Per Press Association.] TAIHAPE, June 14. An inquest was held to-day touching tho death of Isabella Niccoll, wife of Alexander Niccoll, settler, Kaitieke, who was found drowned at 9-30 this morning, in a lagoon near the house of her father-in-law, Moawhango Road. She had a baby clasped in her armsalso drowned. The evidence showed that since her confinement in March tho deceased had been very depressed, and a verdict of temporary insanity was returned. NAPIER, June 14. An old resident of Hastings, named Frank Ronor, over eighty years of age, was found dead in his house in Southland Road. At the inquest to-day a verdict of death from heart failure was returned. MASTERTON, Juno 14. An acetylene gas explosion occurred in tho Methodist schoolroom last night. Preparations wore being made for a lantern lecture, when the fumes rising reached a gas jet and ignited. The presence of mind of Mr Snowball, secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, who was operating, in holding firm the lid of the generator, saved the schoolroom. Mr Snowball was badly burnt about the face and arms. INVERCARGILL, June 14. Two fishermen reported to the polico the discovery of a man's body cast upon the beach at the mouth of the New River estuary. Tho body has not yet been identified, but is sunposed to be that of Robertson, who has been missing from the Bluff for some time.

William Martin, a resident of King Streot, Sydenham, was cycling along St Asaph Street with a child on the front of his bicycle yesterday afternoon, when he ran into a cart. The vehicle passed over him, breaking one of his legs and a collar-bone, and injuring him internally. The child was unhurt. Martin was removed to the Hospital. An elderly man named Charles Wilson was found near the Gully Bridge at Kaiapoi yesterday about 3 p.m., with his throat cut. Tho police took him to the Hosmital at 7.15 p.m., and it was found that his injuries were not likely to prove fatal. Walter Harris, a single man, twentyone years of age, whose parents reside at Woodbury, employed by Mr T. P.« Wooding, threshing mill owner, was killed yesterday by being run over while tho plant was on' its way to Geraldine from Woodbury. Deceased is supposed to have fallen off one of the trucks. Tho wheels passed across his body inflicting terrible injuries. Thomas Boothroyd, aged eighty-two, died suddenly at Akaroa on Monday. It is understood that a medical man frequently attended deceased for attacks of syncope. Frank Robinson, tho boy who was run over by a motor-car on Monday and had his right thigh crushed and fractured, is making good progress at the_ Hospital, thouirh his injury is very painful. The lad Wendl, who had an arm lacerated by a circular saw on Monday, and the little girl Cassie Palmer, who foil and broke a leg while playing, wero reported at tho Hospital this morning as making good progress towards recovery.