ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Western Star, Issue 1577, 8 July 1891, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gibson Turton, fonnerlv solicitor in Dunedin, was found dead on Friday last in the vard of the Victoria Restaurant, Wellington. Deceased had been living in a shed near by and had been seen at about 8 o clock the night before. He had a wife and family living in Dunedin.- An inquest was held, and a verdict of death from natural causes was returned, the medical testimony showing that the primary causes were inflamation and disease of the heart. His life was insured in the Australian Mutual Provident Society for £ISOO and the accnrcd bonuses amount to £1261 1-k At Halcombe on the drd mst. a man named Harry Noble of Fielding attempted to commit suicide by cutting Lis throat. He is likely to recover A man named Ivon Joseph Walters X met his death at Five Rivers on Thursday in a somewhat mysterious manner-' He bad been engaged to do Borne painting, and in the morning informed some of the men that he had struck his head when rising from Ins bunk He afterwards was seized with faintin'* fits, and Mr Yynor, the manager senl for DrDakers, of Lumsden.but before bis arrival Walters was dead. tbo inquest, which was held on Saturdav before Mr G. Allen, J.P., no positive evidence could he given as to bow deceased struck bis head The iury returned a verdict of Accidental death, caused by deceased striking his bead ’against a piece of tunher. ■Walters ' vas a England, and about 4)0 years of age. Ho had been about 80 years iu the colony, The body of a miner named l lios. O’ Callaghan, missing since Thursday, was found iu Lyell Creek on Sunday last at the foot of a precipice a hundred feet high. Deceased was fortysix years old and unmarried. A fatal accident occurred at Lyell near Westport on Saturday. John Brown, a shoemaker, fell over a precipice a distance of forty feet, and was instantly killed. He leaves a widow ond five young children. On Saturday night as John Kemp riding across tho Ashburton tint-

fic bridge his horse shied and threw him over the rails into the river bed fifteen feet below. It is feared that he is injured internally.