ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Western Star, Issue 1548, 28 March 1891, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Mr E, Vesey Hamilton, formerly parliamentary eorrespoudonc of the LytleltonTimes and successively editor of the Christehuvch Star and Canterbury Times, diva on Monday evening or atrophy, aged thirty-three. The youngest son of Mr James Murray, Ofcama, 15 months old, strayed from Ids home on Saturday, and was found later in the day quite dead against a shallow reef across the Otama Creek. It is thought he ventured to cross on th« pl.mk as he had seen other members of his family do, and fell into the water. A gum dealer named Thomas Lyons, a single man, fell overboard from a yacht in the Wairoa River and was drowned. He had been drinking b>. avily for some time, aiul was in a weak state. Patrick O'Brien, G-fc years of age, a stone-breaker at Mount Eden quarries, wis found dead on Monday morning at his work. The cause of death was serious apoplexy. At the inquest on the lato Mr Gresson the medical evidence showed that ho had been subject to attacks of vertigo lately. A verdict of "Accidental death " was returned. The body of John Norton was

found in the Buller river on Sunday, [t is supposed that ho \vr>s drowned on the 10th or 11th inst. Norton was a native ol Lyttclton, aged 38, and unmarried. Frank De Souza, an old miner, was accidentally drowned in the Mokihinui river near Westport on Wednesday.