ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16665, 25 September 1914, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SCHOOLMASTER'S DEATH. [Per Press Association.] ' DUNEDTN, September 24. An inquest was held at Taieri Ferry last evening on the bodv of W. B. Appleby, headmaster of "the Lovells Flat School, missing sinco August '-'2. The body was found in the Taieri Rivor on Tuesday. Tho evidence showed that deceased had no worries, financial or otherwise, was a teetotaller and in a normal state of mind on the day he disappeared. ' ' A verdict of " Found drowned, with no evidence to show how deceased got into the water," was returned. BOTH LEGS BROKEN. YOUNG WOMAN FALLS OVER A CLIFF. [Pkr Piiess Association*.] WHANGAREI, September 24. A young lady named Minnie Birch, a visitor from England, was admitted to the hospital to-day with both legs broken. On Siniday'she left a, friend's place at "Whangarei Heads to climb Aubrey's Mountain. As she did not return a search party set out that night and found the, " missing lady. Miss Birch liad fallen over a cliff, but despite her severe injuries she bandaged one leg with her handkerchief and crawled over n mile on her hands and knees before the search party rescued her.