ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9919, 6 August 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

MAORI CHIEF'S DEATH. [Per Pbess Association.] AUCKLAND, August 6. A Maori chief, named Hemi Taj. "Whanga, died suddenly in the bar oi the Waitemata Hotel yesterday. When he entered he was asked what he wanted and replied, "I want nothing. !■ want only drinks for my friends."'Immediately he tumbled backwards and. ' expired in a few minutes. At the inquest this morning the evidence showed, that death was due to natural causes.

OVERDOSE OF COLOOYNTH [Per Press Association.]

INVEROARGILL, August 6. A married woman named Frances Glover, aged twenty-six, who with fourchildren arrived, from Tasmania a mcnth ago, died under peculiar circumstances at the Bluff. It was stated that she had admitted to a neighbour that she had. taken bitter apple. At' the inquest the Coroner returned a verw diet that she had died by misadventure through taking an overdose of colocynth.

[Per Press . Association.] - AUCKLAND, August 5. 1 ; At the Waitemata Hotel last night-,' T. F. Barnes, clerk to the Raugitaiki Drainage Board, who lived at ' the' hotel, shot himself through the head.,, His room was found locked this morn-' ing and an entrance was; made through 1 a window. Barnes was lying dead in bed, and a, small six-chambered revol--ver, with one chamber discharged, was in his hand. Deceased had undergone < considerable worries in his official,position and a pathetic note was found, in-' his pocket. He was forty years old. ■

An inquest * regarding the death of Sidney Phipps, an old man who died'; in the Hospital yesterday afternoon was held this afternoon by Mr H. "W." Bishop, District Coroner. The evidence." showed that deceased hs.d been' employed for many years by" Messrs A. J. White and Co.', and while laying carpets in the" D.I.C. at about midday on complained of cramps. He was: taken to the Hospital, and died half an hour later, death being due to ; the brain, according to Dr G. W. Gower, who had made a pest-mortem examination. The Coroner returned a verdict to this effect.