THE REINE KEGENTE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5257, 13 May 1895, Page 3

THE REINE KEGENTE

MADRID, Mat 10. News has been received that a survivor of the Eeine Kegente, a Spanish warship ' which recently foundered off the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, was found lashed to a plank drifting in mid-Atlantic by an outward bound ship, but died a few minutes after being taken on board.

[Pee Pbess Association.! NAPIER, Mat 13. An elderly man named Joseph Dorter died suddenly at Petane.

WELLINGTON, Mat 13. r The nnn Patrick, the remaining victim of the Tory Place fire, died in the hospital this morning.

DUNEDIN. May 13. Alfceda Beatrice Healey, aged ten weeks, died suddenly, either through being smothered while in a fit of whooping cough, or being over-lain by her mother.

An inquest was held on Thursday afternoon at Horton Farm, Southbridge, before Mr E. B. Willie, Coroner, and a jury of six, of whom Mr P. O'Boyle was chosen foreman, touching the death of Florence May Clark, aped six year?, who waa accidentally killed by the mill wheel on the farm . the previous evening. : The evidence showed that the child was playing with another eistor near the mill wheel,, when she slipped from the wall in between the spokes of the wheel. D* T. J. Withers also gave evidence, andtbe jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

. A fatal accident from scalding took -place at Belfast on Saturday evening. It appears that a bath waa being got ready for two .children of Mr Robert M'Seyeney. The hot water had been put into the bath, and while a girl had gone to geteome cold water to put into it, one of the children, about two years old, fell in, nnd was tcalded so badly that though Dr Brittin was sent for,, and 1 did all he could for the little-sufferer* it died before midnight.