ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10765, 13 May 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, May 12

John Armstrong, a but6her, 56 years of ago, was operated on at a private Hospital to-da}-, and died shortly after from heart failure.

Wflßam March,' employed by Matson and (!tf.; was kicked on the head by a horse to-night. His skull is fractured, arid the man is in a critical state. Auckland, May 13. ,Av joung man named Andrew A. Russell?, accompanied by a man named Walsh," conveyed some passengers in a launch from Tauranga-to Opotiki. Returning' they encountered stormy weiither. A wave broke over the launch.'and washed Russell overboard. The' inrush of water stopped the engine, and ',Walsh was unable to render assistance..''\Russell was drowned, and the laimch drifted for five miles. Walsh eventually got ashore safely. Russell, who'.had a master mariner's certificate, had been in charge of the launch for a "considerable time. v - "'■- Diinedin, May 13. named John Roberts, aged 64 yea'rsV. succumbed from heart disease this mpriiing"while employed in the Mosfjief woollen mills. He has a grown-up autily at Roslyn. . Wellington, May 13. "George D. C'ronin, a master coach builder and a resident of Petone for m'any J'ears, was killed on the railway lineynt Mailing's Siding, between Lower Hnttr and Belmont, this morning, presumably by the early train from Upper JHott;\ The body was terribly mangled. An I 'inquest was opened, but was adiorifnea after some evidence had been tafen.y Deceased was a widower, and waff'fe-years of age. • Evidence given at the inquest on George Crohin, who was cut to pieces on the'railway line between Belmont and showed that deceased left fdrVDannevirke last' Tuesdav with the intention of returning last night or today.. He-had been suffering from pains inch's head. '.No ohe'.snw the accident, bi{?,"a.J)by, whp was standing on the platform of the last'earriage of the first trail} from the Upper Hutt saw portions oft|a hurrian body on the line, and reported/the matter to the train people. TBe inquest will he resumed on Monday, when the evidence of P. H. Jane, the' engine-driver, and others will l>e taken: ---..'. ,