ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
KILLED BY A KICK. [Per Piiess Association.] INVERCARGILL, December 17. Albert Woods, ten years of age, while endeavouring to head off horses from the road to a paddock at Myross, was kicked in the region of tho heart, and died twenty minutes aferwards.
FOUND DEAD. [Per Pews Association.] WELLINGTON, December 17. Corporal Percy S. Hobbs, in chargo of the post office at Papawai Camp. was found dead in the office on baturdav, with a pea rifle between his knees and a bullet wound in the foreheadHe was twenty years of age.
CYCLIST INJURED. [Per Press Association.]
WELLINGTON, December 17. Frank Easton met with a ssTioiisaceidont when cycling down th 0 Agahau-rano-a Gorge yesterday evening through the chain coming oft. The machine ran into a bank, and Easton was badly ininrcd about tho head. He was picked tin by a motor lorry, which also ran into the bank through engine trouble, thoußh no one elso was hurt. Jiaston v-j-3 finally taken to the hospital, and is, still unconscious.
SUDDEN DEATH OF UNION
SECRETARY
THE INQUEST.
Mr H W. Bishop, District Coroner, hold an inquest at the Courthouse yesterday concerning tho death of Mward Konnodv, who died suddenly at Dr J. R Thomas's rooms on Saturday. James Inbcster said that on Saturday he was at Dr Thomases surgery when Kennedy came in. Witness did not- know Kennedy, but Kennedy cornplanned to him of a pain in tho chest. A few minutes later Kennedy collapsed Louie Woolley said that she had kept a boardinghouxo for her mother and had known deceased for about six weeks. He had never complained or ill-health. .. . James Ferguson Duncan, medical practitioner, said he had made a post mortem examination. He found the lungs normal but in his opinion death was duo to valvular disease of th. heart- Hard riding on a bicycle woull be bad for such a complaint. Frederick Ellis, trades union secretary, said that deceased was secretat\ if the' New Zealand Agricultural and P. storal Workers' Association. Witness last saw him at lunch time on Saturday. Ho then complained of a pain in his chest. Kennedy had been in poor health during tho last six years and witness was not at all surprised to hear of his suddsn death. A verdict was returned that death ■mas clue to heart failure, the result of organic valvular disease of the heart.
CHILD'S SUDDEN DEATH. Ivy Briggs, aged nine years and a half, the daughter of James Briggs, creamery manager, Girder BrklgCj Kniapoi, died suddenly at midnight on Sunday.
Mr T. A. B. Bailey, District Coroner, held an inquest yesterday, and after hearing the ovidenco of Dr J. W. Crawshaw he returned a verdict that death was duo to heart failure duo to diphtheria.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17665, 18 December 1917, Page 5
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