ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6679, 30 November 1908, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BICYCLIST INJURED. Edwin Leary, thirteen years of age, was riding a bicycle in Willis street yesterday afternoon. His machine collided with a tram-way pole, and the boy was injured sufficiently to be taken to the hospital, where it was found he had sustained a hurt to his groin. , A TRAM ACCIDENT. Michael Moriarty, an unmarried builder's labourer, thirty years of age, and who resides at 100, Wellington terrace, in getting off a tram-car opposite Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains' on Saturday night fell to the ground, receiving injuries that rendered him unconscious. He was taken to the hospital, .where a nasty cut over the left eye was attended to. H© is progressing favourably. A FIREMAN DROWNED. MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY. William Ferguson, a- fireman, fell into the harbour at noon on Friday. He was rescued as set out in Saturday's "Times" and taken to the hospital, where he died shortly after 4 o'clock that afternoon. Dr McArthur, coroner, held an inquiry into the circumstances of the fatality at the hospital oi^'Saturday. William Patrick Dowling, carter, stated that while, he was on his lorry at Jervois .quay, .he heard a splash, and, descending quickly, went towards the sound with the intention of. getting a rope. He also gave the alarm, "Man overboard." Mr 0. Jones dived in after the man and brought him to a stringer. The deceased had been paid off his la >t ship on November 24th, and all his discharges found on the body were "very good." A sum of .£1 Is 4d was also found on him. It was shown that when deceased was bi ought ashore his lungs were waterlogged. . The coroner found that the deceased met his death from respiratory failure, caused by taking" water into the lungs, due to a fall into the harbour. Dr Gilmer stated during his evidence that when the man was brought out of the water all the wharf sheds were closed, because it was lunch hour. It was • impossible, therefore, to strip the man and wrap him in blankets, as there wen© no blankets available and no place to lay him. He thought there should be a receiving place on the wharf for such cases.