ACCIDENTS AND FATLATIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6887, 24 June 1890, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATLATIES.

» — [PKB PBKBB AfISOOIATIOH.] AUCKLAND, June 23. A man named James Shannon was killed to-day at Ohaupo. He was working on a farm carting posts when his horses bolted, and he was so seriously injured that he died before medical assistance could be . procured." -.-.. \ "Mr F. _..■ Compton, well known t in shipping eireles,"Tand formerly Cb.ai_i_.an of the Auckland Harbour Board, died suddenly of heart-disease to-day. He had toenailing for some time, but was believed to be recovering. He dropped dead to-day at the Waverley Hotel, where he had been staying. Deceased leaves a widow and three children. Yesterday afternoon Mr E. Beetham, Coroner, held an inquest at the Hospital on view of the body of Charles Snow, commission agent. The evidence showed that the deceased lived with a Mrs Greaveley, * boarding-house keeper in Hereford street. About a fortnight ago he took ill -with a cold, and not getting better Dr Ovenden was called in and prescribed for _____ Deceased refused to take the medicine, and one morning he took a cold bath, after which he beoame partly delirious, and on Saturday last was removed to the Hospital and died the same day.. Dr DeEenzi, the honse surgeon, had made a post-mortem examination, and found that death had resulted from inflammation of the liver, Deceased was a native of

Beverley, in Yorkshire. He has no relatives in this Colony, but ia said to have a cousin in Sydney. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with ihe medical evidenc.. On Saturday afternoon two accidents occurred at Lyttelton, one of which was a very serious one. The second son of Mr S. Derbidge, aged about fourteen years, was in the act of getting into Mr Shepheard's cart on the Governor's Bay road, when the horse moved on before the boy had got a firm hold of the cart, and he fell to the ground. One of the wheels of the cart passed over his body, and upon being examined by Dr Pairman, it was found that he had sustained a fracture of the collar-bone and had been injured internally. From enquiries made yesterday welearnedthat the sufferer was'progressing as well as could be expected. The other accident, or rather narrow escape from what might have been as Berious, happened to a boy named Bamford. He fell in Norwich Quay when passing in front of a .horse and trap being driven by Mr W. Holmes, and but for the prompt action taken by the driver in stopping the horse, one of the cart wheels would have passed over the boy's body. As it was he got severely jammed by the wheel, but was not seriously hurt.