ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13393, 17 September 1907, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DROWNED WHILE BOATING. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright SUVA, September 16. Mr MacDugal. aecond engineer of the cable repairing steamer Iris, was drowned ■while boating. MOTORING IN THE ALPS. . ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE. Received 10.22 p.m., September 16th. LONDON, September 16. While driving Queen Margherita over the Jura mountains, the cbafieur, in order to avoid a collision with a peasant's cart, swerved sharply, and escaped going over a precipice, by a few inches. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, September 16. Several members of the football team of Kaipara natives, on returning homo after playing a match at Port Albert, were attacked by measles. Five of the team died. * Robert Fry, aged 34 years, a resident of Newmarket, was knocked down by a. tram this afternoon and serionsly injured, his back being broken. He was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition.

NAPIER. September 6. An. inquest on the body of John Morris Shannon, who was found kinging by a strap in. aa oathoure of tiw Siortford Lodge Hotel on Sunday morning, was held this afternoon. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. CHRIsrCHURCH. September 16. An inquest was held at Kaikoura on Saturday on the body of a man named Gregg, who was employed on the road works at Kincaid, and was found dead in his bunk on Thursday morning. .The jury returned a verdict that death was the result of foul play by one or more persons, brft there was no evidence to show by whom.