ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6384, 5 December 1907, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Mr .fames Ashcroft held an inquest tresterrlay afternoon at the residence of I lartic.l Connolly, Camp road, Lower Sntt, concerning the death of his son, nrtin Kevin Connelly, aged ten years. It appeared from the evidence that tho boy, in company with others, went to fcbo river to bathe on Tuesday afternoon.. On potting into the water below tho bridge, he was talking to other boys im the hank while wading in tho water, awl suddenly pot out of his depth. He was unable to swim, and seeing him struggling in tho water, another boy wont to his assistance, but failed to Tender any help, narrowly escaping drowning. Constable Patton obtained a boat, and a boy named James Butler recovered the body about an hour after the accident.

Tho jury returned a verdict of accidentally drowned.

Mrs Margaret Spernco, who is said to be about seventy years of age, was taken to fcho hospital last evening suffering a dislocation of her collar-bone. It appears that when passing the Post Office aho slipped, and fell heavily on tho pavement. Her condition last evening was regarded by tho medical authorities m satisfactory. A man named Charles Warren, an electrical engineer on the steamer Maraoia. had n sever© fall yesterday morning, and was taken to the hospital. 1 Jo was found to be suffering from concussion of Hie brain, but tho case is not regarded a serious one. PRESS ASSOCIATION. INVEBOAUGILL, December 4. Thomas Janus Reynolds died at the Riverton Hospitl 10-duy from the ?ff cts of a wound on the head, received while working in Wrey’s bush on T.uesilay. Reynolds was binding a loop in a wire rone of the hauling engine, when Hie engine surged, and the rope t ght n*d. can mg an iron bar to fly round and hit Reynolds on the temple.