ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5281, 11 June 1895, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Special to Fbiss Association.] ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. [Pee F&bbb Association*! AT7CKLAND, June 10. Joseph Short, an employe on the railway, was drowned by the upsetting of a canoe on Lake Ngaroio on Sunday. TAURANGA, June 10. News has beon received from Waiotohi, near Opotiki, that Arthur Chapman, brother of Mr Frank Chapman, a member of the Licensing Committee, was killed on Saturday by the accidental discharge of a gun.

WELLINGTON, June 10.

At the inquest on Herbprt Palmer, the evidence showed that deceased must have had the gun at full-cock, and taking it up quickly to fire it, must have slipped, and the trigger caught in soaae Bcrub. Deceased's brother had fixed up a tourniquet on the wound admirably, but DrPurdy stated that even a medical man could not have saved him with such a wound. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

An inquest was held on- Saturday at | Seaview, Aehbnrton, before the Hon W. J. Steward, J.P., and a. jury of six, on the body of a little girl aged twenty months, the daughter of Mr James Jamieson. From the evidence taken it appeared that the child was taken suddenly ill about eleven o'clock on Friday morning, and died at eleven o'clock the same night. A doctor was sent for, but did not arrive until the child was dead. Dc Greenwood stated that the cause of death was inflammation of the stomach and intestines, occasioned by some irritant poison. No clue could be obtained as to where the child had got the poison. The inquest was adjourned until Monday next to allow of an analysis of the stomach of the deceased child being made by Professor Biokerton.