ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15335, 18 June 1910, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

[Pee, Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 17

Tho body of an elderly man, with grey hair and grey beard, was found in the" harbour to-night. Up till a late hour the body had net been identified. WQODVTLLE, Juno 17.

A man namod John Lawson met with an accident at the Oringi railway crossing to-day. He was driving a cart, and was run into by tho train. The horse was killed and the man seriously injured. He was conveyed to the hospital at Palmerston North. INVERCARGILL, Juno 17.

The body of Jane Acker, a widow, aged sixty-six years, was found in the Oreti River oil Thursday evening. Deceased, who worked as a housekeeper, had been in poor health. INQUEST. Ail inquest was held last evening by Mr H. W. Bishop. District Coroner, on tho body of Patrick Maher, who died on the previous day. Evidence was given by Elizabeth Altkins that the deceased went to the house where she lived in Sydenham on Tuesday afternoon and asked for a man named Stephenson, who was out. He returned on Wednesday and said that lie had been robbed of £0 and bis bank book, and Stephenson lent him 2s. Ho went away and returned at 4.30 and had tea and stayed for the night. Ho went away about 10.30 on Thursday morning, coming back about 2.15 p.m. Witness left- the house for a moment, and on returning found him lying over on his arm, dead. Dr Lester gave evidence that be bap examined the body, find had found evidence of long-standing pleurisy in the right side and a largo patch of pneunionia in tho base of tlie right "ting. The mitral valve of the heart was diseased, the liver was nodular, find the other organs wore normal. Death was caused by heart failure, due to the condition of the mitral valve. Sergeant Renior said that the deceased was a single man with no relatives in tho dominion. He was fiftyeight years of age, and was a farm labourer employed at Loburn. A verdict was recorded in accordance with tlie medical evidence.