FATAL ACCIDENT AT PORT CHALMERS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1795, 22 November 1862, Page 3

FATAL ACCIDENT AT PORT CHALMERS.

A v cry melancholy accident occurred on Thursday evening, on board the barque Time and Truth, now lying at Port Chalmers. Alongside the vessel the steamers City of Hobart and Gothenburg were moored for the purpose of receiving their coal supply, and on that evening some of the firemen and coal trimmers belonging to the City of Hobart went to visit acquaintances on board, tbe otber steamer. Among the number was George Morgan, a coal trimmer, He was tbe last to leave his friends on board the Gothenburg, and in crossing over the deck of the Time and Truth, he must have fallen down the open hatchway, as at six o'clock next morning he was found lying beside the kelsou on the point of death. Immediately on the circumstances becoming known, Captain Darby proceeded ashore for Dr; Urquhart, who was al once in attendance, but the patient was by that lime beyond all human skill, and he died without at all reviving in about an hour and a half after he was first found. The deceased was a man about thirty-two years of age, having a wife and thre6 children in Victoria, and this was the first trip which he had made in the City of Hobart, which he had joined at Melbourne. He was a strictly temperate man, and one wbo was well esteemed by his companions. An inquest was held on the body, wben a verdict of accidental death was returned. — Otago Daily Times.