Accidents and Fatalities.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6627, 20 February 1900, Page 3

Accidents and Fatalities.

(Per Press Association) Stratford, February 19. An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon concerning the death of a child three years old, son of Mr Smith, of Hastings road. The child had been found head downwards in a milk-can half full of water, outside his father's residence. The verdict was that death was accidental and no one was to blame.

Auckland, February 19. Mrs Crouch, aged 60, the wife of a small farmer at Cambridge, who came from the Waikato to attend a series of faith - healing lectures, dropped dead on the road to a meeting, it is believed from heart disease.

February 20. A Coromandel settler named John Lawson shot himself dead on an island in Coromandel harbor. He apparently pulled the trigger with his toe. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned.

Wellington, February 19. A wharf lumper named Harry Whitton fell down the fore - hatchway of the steamer Elingamite to-day and injured his back. The man was removed to the Hospital,

The steward of the Wakatu, John Robinson, disappeared on the trip from Lyttelton to Port Robinson on Sunday.

The Southland Times reports that Geo. Gilbert Kennedy, 18 years of age, was killed in a gravel pit at Springhills on Wednesday by a fall of earth. A man who was working in the pit did not see the accident, but when he turned round he saw Kennedy pinned against a wheel. He went to give assistance, but the young man never spoke.