ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED.

[Peb Press Association. I Dunedin, January 16,

A fisherman, named Lewis, found the body of a man floating inside the harbor to-day, and conveyed it to Port Chalmers, where it was identified as that of David Timlin, who was drowned, in company with Thomas Shanks, near the Kaik on December 29. An inquest was held, and the coroner returned a verdict that deceased was accidentally drowned through the upsetting or a dinghy.

A CHILD POISONED. Auckland, January. 16. The death, by poisoning, of a two-year-old child named John Samuel Ritchie, was enouired into by the coroner this morning. Catherine Ritchie, the mother of the deceased, stated that at 4.60 p.m. on Wednesday one of her children.said that he had been playing with a bottle, and had swallowed some of its contents. In recording a verdict of accidental death, the coroner referred in severe terms ■to the carelessness of people in leaving bottles, etc., which had contained dangerous compositions, lying about in places where they might he readied by children.

FATAL FALL FROM A TRAM. Auckland, January 10. An elderly man, whose identity is at present unknown, died at the hospital early this morning from the effects of a fall from a iraracar last evening.

A MAN DROWNED.

Wellington, January 1G

James Wat or street, aged 52 years, was drowned in the harbor this afternoon. . He was keeper cf the hulk ! Sol gran, which had just been towed out to her moorings by the tug Terawhiti. Water street, and another man named Green, were fixing the lines to the mooring-buoy, when the rope broke, and both men were knocked into the water. Green caught a line thrown from the tug, and was hauled aboard, hut W aterstreet was never seen again. WAGON-DRIVER KILLED. Taihape, January 16. At Tnoroa, on Thursday, a man named Tom Carlton was driving a. wool wagon, when the leaders got out *of hand. The wagon capsized over a bank, rolling over the driver, who, however, was partly protected by falling into a depression in the ground. He sustained a fractured skull, and died this morning. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was recorded.