FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14686, 20 November 1909, Page 11

FATALITIES.

(Feb Ukitid Pbzss Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 19. A man named John Primblo died suddenly at East Tamaki last night. The deceased was concerned In a slander action at tho presest sittings of the hupremo Court, about which he was greatly worried, and it is suggested that the worry <V id anxietv which he has suffered may have hastened his death.

TAIHAPE, November 19. the man Jago, who was injured in the tiro at Turangarere, is dead. This is the third death occasioned by this fire. Wellington, "November 19. Jack Roberts, the young jockey who was found on the Kaiwarra Hills two days ago with a bullet wound in his forehead and a revolver by his side, died - in the hospital this morning. He camo from Marlborough. WESTPORT, vNovember i 9. At 10.30 a.m. to-day the chief steward on the s.ij. Whangapc, Archibald M'Cnllum'. was found by his assistant, Joseph Ciillen, in his bunk in an unconscious state with a bottle, of spirits of chloroform and laudanum on his table. Medical aid was summoned and artificial resuiratlOll JOSOrted to and emetics administered, but without avail, Deceased, who wan a native of Glasgow, was 45 vears of ago. aJld was married. His homo was in St. Kilda. He left a letter for the captain stating that he had been a fcol to lumeelt, and asking him to forward Ins effects to hia wife'at Dunedin. At tho inquest in tho evening the evidence went to show that the deceased had since tho arrival of the steamer, in Westport;. been drinking, and had on one occasion been idmonibhed by the captain. Tho verdict of the coroner was that death was due' to an overdose of laudanum, seifadministered.

GORE, November 19. Henry Matthews (31), a married man, with two children, engaged in the day shift at Green's lignite pit, did not return home last evening. His wife became alarmed, and communicated with the mine manager, ,vho with his son madehaste to the mine., where an inspection revealed Matthew's body almost covered beneath a rosea of lignite. Tho coal was broken up, and on. getting the body dearlife was found to be extinct. It 'is sup-; posed that, deceased fired a shot (which" was heard about 4 o'clock), and that this failing to bring down tho coal he commenced te hew out the wall, with the result that he loosened the coal, which tell on him.