ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18439, 19 June 1920, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Mr S- E. McCarthy, District Coroner, held an inquest yesterday concerning the death on the previous evening of Mrs Eliza Hulmo. aged seventy-four. A verdict was returned, in accordance with the medical testimony, that death was duo to heart failure. An inquest will bo held this morning at tho Magistrate's Court into the death of Hector Rudolph King, twentyfive years of age, who died in the Christchurch Hospital yesterday. THE TATU TRAGEDY. [Pish PitKsa Association.) T.VUMARUNUI, Juno 18. At the inquest on tho throe victims of the Tatu tragedy the jury returned a verdict that they were killed through the explosion of a packet of gelignite left in the kitchen overnight, tho cause of the explosion being unoxplainahle. Medical evidence showed that Miss Lilburn and tho child of England wore killed instantaneously, and that Mrs England died of shock, the evidence of Mr England showing that when he rushed to the house ho found his wife still conscious.