ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1219, 12 July 1895, Page 41

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

June 28. A somewhat sefiotjs trap accident occurred at the foot of Majo*ib'anks street on Sunday afternoon. Mr Irvine', tyho was accompanied by his wife and a yoting lady friend, hired a horse and a twowheeled vehicle from Johnston's livery stables-, CbflSbridgo terrace, but the party had only gone a fo\V yards when the animal became unmanageable and bolted in the direction of Oriental Bay. Just opposite the City Hotel the' horse swerved, with the result that the vehicle was capsized and the three occupants thrown "on to the road/ Mr and Mrs Irvine 6'scaped with a severe shaking, but their companion did Cot get off so lightly, and was rendered unconscious. Some bystanders carried her into the City Hotel, where Mr and Mrs Ambler rendered her every assistance, and also attended to .Mr and Mrs Irvine. Dr Chappie was sent for, and found that the young lady had received a slight concussion of the brain. No serious consequences are apprehended, however. Meanwhile the horse had continued its course along Courtenay place, and in Manners street another accident occurred. A lady and gentleman driving in a spring cart saw the runaway coming, and drew up on the side of the roadway to let it pass. The lady occupant left the trap, and she soon had cause to be thankful for her prudence, for the runaway collided with the stationary vehicle, and almost overturned it. The occupant was thrown on his back on to the road, but, we believe, merely received a severe shaking. The runaway was brought up in Boulcott street by colliding with a telegraph pole. The trap was practically smashed to pieces. A youth named Alfred Neilson, 16 years of age, residing near Stanway, was out shooting with his younger brother on Sunday, and was accidentally shot through the heart, and died instantly — Advocate.

A serious accident occurred in the Adelaide road about 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening. Mr M. Hickey, an accountant, was riding on a tramcar, and when approaching his own house near the Tramway Hotel went to get off, telling the driver (Robert Phillips) that there was no necessity for him to stop the car. In jumping off the car, however, Mr Hickey fell, and before the car could be stopped one of the wheels had passed over his body. He was immediately lifted up and conveyed to his home, where he was examined by T>r Alexander, who found that three of his ribs were broken. His condition is considered serious. A little boy named Kerrigan, at Ashurst was chopping some fir twigs with a carving knife, when the point of the knife entered the eyeball. He is in danger of losing the sight of the eye. July 5. The coroner held an inquest on Friday morning on the body of a child named Weir Henry Dawes, at the Esplanade Hotel. Mrs McMorrin stated that the child belonged to her sister and she brought it to Wellington from Auckland on the Queen's Birthday, when it was a little over three weeks old. Witness took the child without pay, and its mother was to follow in the next boat and take charge of it herself. Her sister, however, did not come, aud last Saturday wrote to witness telling her to register her house, as she would never take the child away. Witness did not register her house, because she did not intend to keep the child. Recently the child's mouth became ulcerated, and she obtained medicine and lotion from Mr Orr, chemist, but the child died suddenly at 7.30 on Thursday morning. Dr Grace deposed that the cause of death was pressure on the lungs, caused by enlargement, of the liver. He did not see any ground to blame the woman in charge of the child. The jury, of which Mr J. Slater was foreman, returned a verdict in accordance with the i medical evidence. I

Mr Fimon, of Pohangina, lias been taken to the Palmerston Hospital suffering from, a severe injury to his knee, received by a fall from a horse.

Mr M. J-lickey, who received severe injuries a few days since by falling from a tramcar, has been removed to the Hospital. His condition is regarded as somewhat serious.

A man named .Joseph Henderson informed Constable Price about noon on Tuesday that he had reason to suspect that a fellow-boarder with him at Curtis' Restaurant, Lambton quay, had attempted to commit suicide, as he had seen him with a glass of something in his hand and subsequently found him on the bed, and a packet which had contained ground opium on the table. On entering the restaurant Constable Price found the man, whose name is Benjamin Shure, a young Eussian, lying on a bed, and as he was in a bad state he called in the aid of Mr W. C. FitzGerald, chemist, who did all in his power to restore him to consciousness. He then ordered his removal to the Hospital, where he is so far progressing favourably. The police authorities have received a telegram from Constable Cooper, of Pahiatua, stating that a man named Saul Eombach hanged himself at Mangatainoka on Tuesday.

Auckland, June 20. Ifews has been, received of the death of

W. Prlnsjle, on board the steamer Tonga* riro. On the day after the vessel leffc Wellington Fringle was thrown by a. heavy lurch, and two of bis ribs were broken- Ha succumbed to the shoek. June 22. Mr J. D. Hammond, of Symonds street, was found dead in bed to-day. He was 84 years of age. Auckland, Jaly I. A man named Henry Edwards, 3 gumdigger at Spring Hill, dropped dead whale pig hunting. He leaves a wife aud seven destitute. A young man named Frank Messenger is in the hospital, suffering from swallowing 13 match-heads. He was gum-digging in the Huia district, but was not fortunate, mid came to town. He was driven almost to desperation through hunger and want of work. The residence of A. G-randison, builder, Constitution Hill, has been burnt down, £?teo the house adjacent belonging to Mrs Grandison. Insurances North British, buildings a-ad furniture, ,£225; W. Brown, tenant, insured, £7O, Norwich Union. Dunedin, June 22. Robert Donnelly, a miner, an old resident of Naseby, has been found dead in his hut. The cause of death was heasfc disease. Mrs Eleanor Copland, an old blind lady, widow of Mr Copland, solicitor, Lawrence, was burnt to death at her house yesterday afternoon. Bertie Prosser, a child of three years, died in the Hospital from the effects of burns received through his clothes taking fire. The child and his sister were playing with matches yesterday morning, when hia nightdress caught fire. Dunsdin, July I. A man named Taylor fell over the face of some old workings at BannoeMmrn on Sunday, and died from his injuries during the afternoon. Blenheim, June 2o„ An inquest on the body of Thomas Gulley, a Sound's settler, who died in the Picton Hospital on Monday after a spell of unconsciousness lasting from Saturday, when he received a blow from Geo. Harris, has been postponed till Saturday. Some of the tops with which the Chinese amuse themselves are as big as barrels. It takes three men to spin one, and it gives off a sound that may be heard several hundred yards. Blenheim, July 1. At an inquest at Picton to-day concerning the death of Thomas Gullery, a verdict was returned that death was caused from compression of the brain, resulting from rupture of a blood vessel through a fall caused in the Ship Hotel by a blow delivered by George Michael Harris, and that the jury are of opinion that no bodily harm was intended. A rider was added that gross neglect was shown by the landlord of the Ship Hotel in not taking prompt remedies after the unfortunate occurrence. Manaia, June 29. At yesterday'=i meet of the newly-formed Hunt Club, one rider had his collar-bono and another his leg broken.