AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3469, 22 September 1894, Page 10

AUCKLAND NEWS.

{by telegraph.—own CORRESPONDENT]. Auckland, List Night. .At Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons' yards to-day, the Clydesdale stallion Duke of Argyle was submitted to auction and bought by Messrs W. and G. Winstone at .205 guinea?. The Olydesda'e stallion Break o' Day failed to reach the reserve. ■ A man named Patrick Franklin, aged About 30, who arrived from Sydney in the Wairarapa on Tuesday last, was, instantaneously killed in Durham-street about 20 minutes to four this afternoon. Franklin •was giving a horse a trial with a loaded dray, when the anitnal got unmanageable, but he held on to its head and it jammed him with great force against the concrete •wall leading to Nolan's sale '.yard, the poor fellow being killed instantly, Dr. Scott, who happened to be . there, pronounced life extinct.

An inquest was held to-day before Dr. Pliilson respecting the death of Alice Ann Harris, who died suddenly on Wednesday evening last.' From the evidence'given it a ppeared that deceased was the wife of a bootmaker at Kihikihj, and..had come to Auckland on Monday! last to undergo an operation on her. right eye. She 'stepped wi th her sister-in-law (Mrs Ellen Laiiipra, •of Wakefield-streetj, and the operation; was performed ;ut Dr., Wilkin*', Shortland6treet,,on Wednesday afternoon; deceased being put under chloroform about halfrpast (four. When the operation was complete jhe was conveyed bick to her lodgings in •Wakefield street, but an hour later was -seized with a faint which appeared to be getting- so serious that. I)r, ; . Wilkins w;as •icallcd in t) attend her.at seven. Dr, Wilkinikrrived about aii hnHr liiter aud applied some poultices to deceased, bat with no'effect,for she sank gradually and died at nine. -Evidence wan given at/ the inquest .that subsequent to the : operation r;deceased was, perfectly clear ,aij<i: sjjuJce; cheerfully, : but'about an hour later she took' a 'faint .and steadily became wcr»e till.,she' (lied. The jury returned a verdict that death resulted ifrom ,nervous exhaustion, with no blame 1 attached to .auyoto, and (consulered that an inquert was unnecessary.