CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13208, 15 February 1905, Page 5

CASUALTIES.

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WELLINGi'ON, Febiuary 14. " Jtimcs Naylor, of Welilhgtoh, /iiged 68 yeans, when visiting, tho house orhis son-in-laiy at Khandallah .last night, fell: back on tho bed wliilo goiiig to bed. quently his wife .visited hiiii, and-foUnd him dead. .

A stocking accident occurred near Slitherlands aboilt il o'clock on IsihiidAy-Jsiiys tho TimaVu Herald), which resulted ih the death of Sir Mitten s soli John, it boy seven years of age. It appears that lie was, sitting in a cftrtj. aiid during tho driver's, abjenoo the horso bolted; throwing tho little fellow out with .tremendous violence and.wreckj'ng the cart. Dr Heard, of Plodsant Point, was sooii iii altoii'diildb, but thoiigh no b'dnes were- birdken &iid tho little stlfferer retained consciousness, lie had received such tei'iiblo internal injuries that lie died early in th'o ey-oning. At the inquest on the. late William son, hold; at L'ovell's Flat, Dr Sutherland, who made an external examination of tho body, said ho concluded that the deceased had probablv died from failure of-tho heart, due to heart disease,. caused by overwork and accelerated by not taking his meals regularly; that ho fainted, and if a medical man had .been present lie might have bcori iblo to givo him a restorative. Tho jury, brought, in a verdict that deceased dictl' from natural causes; tho result of heart disease.