ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9568, 26 October 1892, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Phh United Pbess Associatwn.) Auckland, October 25. • A settler at Tuakau, named Hugh Black a married man, 40 years of age, has been drowned in a small.creek near that village by the capsizing of his canoe. jA. , * Nelson, October 25. At an eirly hour .this morning information r,?/7« nt 0 the P°i ie,c thafc George Matthews, H?» fl 7Ttl had foUnd dead °n the floor of the stoke-hole of the malthouse where he was employed. Serious wounds were found on the back of his head, and brain matter was Protruding. A medical man gave it as his opinion that the wounds must have been caused by.foul play but this belief was abandoned, and it was concluded that the wounds were caused by an accident. At the inquest a verdict was dent 6] ft d<3ath WaS °aUSed by an ci"

. , , , „, BtEifHEisr, October 25. A lad named Alfred Phillpots, son of a storekeeper at Picton died in the hospital this morning whilst under chloroform, administered to remove a dead bone from his le- Three medical men were present. Everything was done to restore animation, but without success . .. „ CHBiSTcnoncH, October 25 A middle-aged man named William Johnston, who came to-day from Napier iv the TOm "fV n f tended Solng to England in the Rimutaka, fell down in Oxford street, Lyttelton and died almost immediately. The cause ol death was the rupture of au artery