ACCIDENTS AND FATALILIES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9880, 11 April 1893, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALILIES.

(press association.) Auckland, April 10.

Tha body of Mr George Clarke, Inspector of permanent way between Mercer and Mokau on the railway line, who has been missing since the 2od instant, was reoo-rere i in the Waikato River yesterday, Clark* had been in the Government service for 18 years. He was transferred from Otago to Hamilton in August last. Hi* life waa insured in tho Government office for £l5O.

Mr Jjmes and broke bis hip j>iofc ou a kerbing on Saturday. Ho waa taken to Iho hospital for medical treatment and died this morning. J be doctor gave a certificate that death was caused by heart di^CAse. A well-known farmer in the Waikato district, Mr John McNiohol, died yesterday in the Hamilton Hospital of pneumonia, contracted through a severe wetting, caused by hij falling iuto the Waikato river, Ths deceaved was one of the largest sheep and draught horse breeders in the Waikato. Dunmjin, April 10.

At tho inqsKst ca the body of Mr James Reid, found in tho harbr.ur, a verdict of found drowned waa returned. The deceased had no relatives here. He had at one time two biotheis, one of whom, a witness said be believed, committed suicide. Christchurch, April 10. George Allen, a Übotm.r sometimes employed as a casual hand at the Addington Railway Workshops, was killed this afternoon while lopping trees on private property on the Hazsldcan road, Sydenham. Be Is supposed to have fallen off & tree on to bis head, as hie neck was broken.