ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10630, 6 December 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) New Plymouth, December 5. At an inquest to-day on a man named l Wood, found dead in the police cells on Saturday morning, it was shown that deceased was arrested on Friday night for drunkenness, and then had a small cut over the eye, probably as the result of a fall. A post mortem revealed a quantity of blood under the skull. There was a growth on the left side of the brain, which was very rough all round, and it is concluded that the blow above the eye had thrown the brain against the growth and lacerated an artery, causing compression of blood on the brain, resulting practically .in apoplexy. The verdict was accordingly. Auckland, December 5. "Archie Myers, aged 32, a married man,. living at. Devonport, died this morning after taking a seidlitz powder. After-, swallowing'the powder Myers said it was bitter, and symptoms of strychnine poisoning ensued, A doctor attended Myers, who died two hours later. Ashburton, December 5. This afternoon a seven-year-old. daughter of Arthur Stewart, of Hinds, .was accidentally run over by an iron roller on which, she had been riding, .and was killed-jnstantaneously. An inquest will be held. Palmerston North, December 5.

At . an inquest to-day on Charles Shannon, a flaxmill employee, late of Dunedin, who was drowned in the Maiiawatu River on Sunday, a verdict, was retsrned that deceased was accidentally •di-owned. Avhile bathing alone. ■: w-: "l~V : ..- .v v "I ;

.Gisborne, December 5. ■Mjrtlo Johnson, aged IS months, a daughter of a borough Council Employee, died as a result of di inking carbolic oil, which had been left on a table in a saucer to keep flies away, -t r Auckland, December 6.

An old man named James Milhken, ■vriosted for drunkenness, was found dead in the police cells at 2 o'clock this moimng. -* Christchurch, December 6. •Peter Grenfell, aged 15, died"in the ,hospit:il this morning as the result of injuries sustained in a street accident yesterday.. Grenfell was riding a bicycle when bo collided with a gro.cer's- van, the wheels o£, which passed ovet him. His parents reside at Addiligton. C.aifcertQn,,-D.erember 6. Nitz, senr./ aged about 60, went shooting last night and was found dead this" morning on th'e hills on his property at Tewharau. There was no sign of any wound, and it is presumed that Jie died of heajt failure, >