ACCIDENTS and FATALITIES.

Western Star, Issue 1571, 17 June 1891, Page 2

ACCIDENTS and FATALITIES.

A miner camoff Richard Chambers had rather a narrow escape from a serious if not a fatal accident, on Saturday evening, near Round Hill. Mr Chambers, who is very deaf, was walking along the tram-vay towards Wakapatu, and tho trolly was coming down a steep incline just behind him. The rails being slippery with tho frost, the brake would not act, and Chambers could not hear the driver calling him to get out of tbe way. The trolly was within a foot or two off him, whan he providentially turned round, and was just in Lime to clear tho lino. So close a shave was it for him, that a portion of his coat was torn away by the trolly as it wont rushing past. Mrs Hibell, wife of Frank Hiboll, insurance surveyor, died suddenly at Christchurch ou Monday while going about her housework. She was 42 years old. Tho cause of death is supposed to bo heart disease.

A married woman named Ellen Davis, dropped dead at Dunedin on Sunday while preparing breakfast. She had always enjoyed good health. The cause of death was apoplexy. Mr Peter Mackle, aged 80, is dead. He was an elder of St. James Presbyterian Church, Auckland. It is death was hastened by the drowning of his sou in the Wanganui river recently.

During squally weather at sea John Humphreys, able seaman on the barque Alice Muir, from Sydney for Auckland, fell from aloft. A buoy was thrown but ho failed to reach it, and ho went down. Ho was a native of Kent, and aged 24. A Chinese miner named Alt Ken was killed in his claim at B dlarat Hill, Stafford, near Hokitika, ou Monday, by a fall of earth Mr William Henry Connell, solicitor, died suddenly on Monday, at Auckland, of apoplexy. Ho was a brother-in-law of the lato Mr G. P. Pierce.

A billiard marker named Alfred Clark, who was subject to epileptic tits, fell into an open drain at the Thames, Auckland, and aas suliooalo.l.

William Norman, a prominent niambor of the A. and P. Association, of which ho was once president, died on Monday night, aged 75. Ho was v, passenger by the Sir Goo. Seymour, ono of tho first four ships, and was one of the earliest breeders of Clydesdales in Canterbury. The body of a Maori youth who has been missing for soma time, and was supposed to have been lost in the bush, has boon found in tho Warea river, whore ha must have been drowned.