ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 19, 5 January 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, January 4. The body of a man named William Brown, who was drowned when going aboard the OpaVa at the Railway wharf on Thursday night last week, was found this morning floating in the water alongside the Calliope Dock. The body of a man named James Dawson, 38 years of ago, who bad been missing from his lodgings since Tuesday; was found in the Domain this morning. The man had apparently been dead some time, and prior to his disappearance had complained of pains in the head. An elderly man named Thomas Britton died suddenly when being conveyed to Wairoa hospital. Deceased had been ill about a week. The cause of death was heart failure. An inquest on the body of William Andrews, drowned in the Onga'ue river, was held to-day. A verdict of accidentally drowned, with no blame attachable to anyone, was returned. Thomas Savill, the eldest son of Walter Savill, of Waingaro, aged B'years, was thrown from a horse and killed this morning. Rotorua, January 4. An accident occurred to-day to a boy named Jack Batten, eight years old, son of F. H, Batten, dentist. Ho fell off a coach and was run over. His leg was lacerated, but no bones were broken. Christchurch, January 4. An inquest was held to-day rfn the body of John Goston, an aged man, who was found drowned in the Avon River on Wednesday. Evidence was given as to the finding of the body in three feet of water. Dr. Symcs. who examined the body, attributed death to drowning, and that deceased, would have had no power of recovery with his heart in the condition revealed by the examination. Deceased’s wife could not account for him getting into the river. He had not been depressed. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased was found drowned and there was no .evidence to show how he got into the water. Dunedin, January 4. Wm. Johnston, aged 07, a retired boxmaker, hanged himself yesterday afternoon at St. Kilda. He was a married man with a small family. A man named James Corrigal, of Xjauder, died suddenly in the first express from North to-day, shortly after the train had passed Palmerston. Heart failure is supposed to be the cause of death.