FATALITIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 21 December 1906, Page 4

FATALITIES.

' '- v U(iNEt)iN, Thursday'.' " Dr 'Janio^U Md,r t nV 6f ■ Middl^' mal'oh, was tihfdwh out of hia trap betwevn Bfacßae's an<i Moonlight yesterday, (and- sustained, fatal injuries; The deceased, wJio wiaqunmarried, and about 54 years of ape. 'was in pi-aetice with his brother, Dr Robert Martin, before he took up. his Middlccnarch practice a littlu over two years 'ago. WELd.,IXGTOX, Thursday. The ■ inquiry *uto- the 'death of Mrs Kensington, who was killed on Monday by being run down by a fire brigade • motor enffine, was continued to-day. The greater part of tho evidence was with re*-gar-tl to the pace at which the car travelled alonfl Lau/.-ton Quay ' amcl turned .into Bowjn-street osi tho day of the accirtc-nt. The driver, Spry, took the c a r over the ground) and afterwards said he had gono at about the same rate as on Monday. This 'was denied by some of the -witnesses, who said the -pace on Monday h a d -been greater. Somo of (horn contoudod that the ear tr a vell«J a t 'botivooii 15 and '20 ni'ilos an hour, and had turned 'the corner ht an unsafe speed. It seemod to be 'established that Mrs Kensington and her daughter did not seethe motor until It was practically 'on top of them. The inquiry was adjourned until next day, thciCoroner to, in the lnean- . time, tfake the 'ev dence of Mips Louisa Kensington, who had a leg I fractured in the ■accident. ' , | The " dead body of Harry Cooper,

affsd 35 years, who had been em- j ' pjoyed as a billiard marker, was j found in tho haflbour yesterday. I