DEATHS & CASUALTIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7842, 3 July 1911, Page 1

DEATHS & CASUALTIES

DIED IN HIS SLEEP OLD-AGE PENSIONER'S PEACEFUL END. On Saturday evening Mr Daniel Hickey, of 41 Austin street, an oldage pensioner, died in his sleep. It appears that after -enjoying Lis dinner on Saturday evening he went to he down. At a quarter past nine bis son, thinking be had been sleeping rather a long time, went into the room to wake lus father, and found 'him lying dead on the bed. Dr McGavln was summoned, but. as deceased had not complained of anv illness, was unable to certify to the cause of death. An inquest will be held at the house at 2.15 this pftornoon. ■ DEATHS AT POIURUA HOSPITAL. Two male patients at the Potirua Mental Hospital died yesterday. Both were elderly men. One had been an inmate of the institution for about a couple *of years and the other for_r* little over a month. The coroner, Dr A. McArthur. S.M., will go to Pprirua by this evening’s train to hold the inquests. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A BOY. The boyish practice of swinging behind a moving vehicle was i the cause of a serious accident to a six-year-old lad in one of the narrow lanes off Taranaki street on Saturday afternoon. The boy, Charles Davis, whose parents reside at IC9 Taranaki street., vis having a c whip behind” a dray, and when the vehicle was suddenly backed tho little fellow was jammed against the corner of a; house. His head was cut open, and ho was- removed to the hospital, where his injury was attended to. MAORI WOMAN SUTTOOATED. PEEfIS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, July 1-. A Maori woman named Mere Terei, 41 years of «age. met her death under peculiar circumstances at Taumutu,: Lake Ellesmere, yesterday. ' Operations for letting out surplus waters of the lak were iu progress and > strong scour was running through the culvert. The woman Intended to cross the culvert but the bank gave way, and she was sucked down in a deep hole and suffocated with sand and water. - It -took ci gang of me three hours to recover the body.