ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9068, 20 April 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BY TEIiKiRAPI! —I»BESS ASSOCIATION. I DUNEDIN, April 18. At an inquest concerning the death of Driver J. Logie, the chief witness said that the deceased was crossing from one carriage to another, when he slipped and fell between them. Deceased had had no drink what- • ever. A verdict of accidental death was returned. / BLENHEIM, April 18. Scott Harding, who was mysteriously injured in Grove Road on Wednesday night, died at the hospital at 1.30 yesterday afternoon, never having regained consciousness. His head was frightfully smashed, and it is thought to be unlikely that thewounds were the result of a fall from a horse, as at first suggested. Harding, who of late years had bten frequently intoxicated, was known to have imbibed excessively on the evening of the occurrence, and is said to have drawn money from the bank during the day. The police are reticent. A detective is making enquiries. An inquest was to have been held this morning, but was adjourned till Tuesday, in order to get ■ something definite. ' AUCKLAND, April 18. An Imperial pensioner named Thomas Bristow died suddenly while sweeping his bedroom. GISBORNE, April 18. At an inquest touching the death of Catherine Hollier, who died while under chloroform, the verdict was that no blame was attachable to anyone. Dr Collins said in his opinion the cause of death was inhibition of J the heart's action, accelerated by her nervous condition, rather than the anaesthetic. The coroner said it appeared to be one of those cases were death did occur despite all reasonable and proper precautions having been taken. TAIHAPE, April 18. A three-year old child of Mrs Woolnough, postmistress at Torere, died from injuries sustained through being burnt by fire in her mother's absence. SUPPOSED BOATING FATALITY. THREE MEN BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED. INVERCARGILL, April 19. Three men Charley Brown, George Saunders, and "Banjo" .lones —went fishing in an oil launch from Riverton on Friday morning, and it is feared they are drowned. Shortly after noon a gale, fierce though short-lived, sprang up. The men did not return, and search parties went out on Saturday. The boat was found washed ashore orj the Riverton beach. From the nature of the movable articles found in the launch, it is considered improbable that she had capsized, but was simply swamped. Enquiries along the coast from the Bluff to Colac, and on Centre and Stewart Islands, have failed so far to reveal any traces of the men.

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