FATALITIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 17 April 1907, Page 4

FATALITIES.

A CHILD DROWNED. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. A child named Grace Klein has been drowned m a creek 20 miles from Kawhia. The child's mother made two unsuccessful attempts to recover the body which was found a couple of hours afterwards. To reach the burial place the settlers carried the corpse six miles through the bush. Mrs Lucy Bevan, a married woman belonging to Raglan, aged 31 years, died to-day while under the effects of chloroform which was . administered prior to an operation being perfromed ( CHRISTCHURCH: Tuesday Ihe man who was run over by the midday express near Addington to-day fv nf^A ll' 11 ' ned aS Ro^ McAnul ty, ot Ashburton. . GISBORNE, Tuesday. . At an inquest on Henare Hawke the' jury returned a verdict that deceased met his death on die Gisborne 'and Karaka railway by being caught by toa e nv S "o?' f h 0 hei^^hJll IX y j .v c ofisc,al s, who used every J£ r0 ( , and , d '<Sfnce. Death was caused «■ the doctor's testimony stated from sh ° c . k tO , thf nervous sy/em. ™' trom wlilf ad ody of Mis ** E*; 2 abeth Wood, age d 64 years, formerly of Auck and, was found in the Taruheru R?v„ this afternoon. The deceased n-h s.ded with her married niece 'hid f, '"" m poor health and had tone out Iw SsVfc— ' the « z °° s *he body offi? 4 Tuesda y-

i Tib folio winy telegram from Paris •-M.aious.sac, Majo-, Q f Liour a n-les-Bez.ers, , droppo ., ufe]css a" out walking laat Sunday. lYwtcrday h 0 was l„.in ff p„ t i„ to hds cof . fin, uhen a frund thoUffht he depuis? A doctor was hastily summoned, and pronounced the .<£Ed' man to be alive. M. Moussac, who :*s m a state of catalopsv, is s nn ■ unconscious." l Tho mortality amon<? live st nr l<- ;„ ,An.t™ha last year wa § s the "lowest on