ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8881, 5 August 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Press Association.) Wellington, August 4. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of Samuel Stevenson, who fell from a scaffold in Jervois Quay. Dunedin, August 3.

At the inquest held to-day on the body of Ambrose Phillips, who was killed on Friday evening at Cavorsham by being run over by the railway train, a son-in-law of the deceased gave evidence that for tiie last eight or ton day s the doceased|s mind was unhinged and that his manner at times was peculiar. It was also stated that on the day of his death the deceased acted in a peculiar manner. A verdict- was returned that deceased met his death by throwing himself in front of a railway train in motion and that ho did so while suffering from temporary insanity. Auckland, August 5. A fatal accident occurred while the Union Company’s Aparima was taking stores at Chelsea on Saturday afternoon. It is stated that Chief Steward Henry Hawkey was helping a lumper to take in a sling containing stores when the sling swung round and knocked him on to a lighter alongside, a distance of throe feet. Ho was picked up hut before he could he placed aboard tho Aparima he had expired. Hawkey has a wife aud two children in Wellington. Ho came to Auckland for relief work on the Aparima and had been in the employ of the Union Company for a number of years.