INQUESTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9797, 22 July 1893, Page 6 (Supplement)

INQUESTS.

An inquest touching the death of Timoti Karetai, a, Maori native, was held at Otago Heads yesterday morning before Mr B. G. Allen (the Mayor of Port Chalmers), acting coroner, and a jury of six, of whom Pilot Milne was foreman.—Dr Hendry deposed that on the 20th icst. he was called upon to attend deceased, who had failen from a cliff at the Heads and sustained severe injuries. Witness found upon examination that deceased had sustained a fracture of the right collar bone, broken two ribs, and had received a severe scalp wound over the left car. Witness had duly treated deceased, who was also suffering from liver complaint.—Mrs Maaka, the sister, and Joseph Karatea, the son of the deceased, who were with him on' July 20, when the accident occurred, stated that hifl foot slipped and ho fell a distance of some 70ft from the cliff on which they were standing, striking the rocks in his fall.—The jury returned a verdict that deceased had accidentally met his death from the effects of falling over a cliff at Taiaroa Heads.

An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at Bistings's Hotel, before Mr Coroner Carew and a jury of six, on the body of Amy Martin, aged 6 months, who eied on Thursday morning. The evidence went to chow that on Sunday last the child had caught a cold. The mother, who li?e3 in Castle street, administered a half teaspoonful of Irish moss daily, but on Thursday morning the infant died. Dr Stenhouse, ■who was called in after death, said that the child had died of bronchitis. A verdict to this effect was returned.