ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

(Par Press Association)

. ■ AUCKLAND, September 16. Miss'HoUick,-a, visitor from Dunedin, fell when leaving a tramcar,: and her right foot was so badly crushed by the wheel of fclio car that the foot had to be amputated. FOXTON, September IG. At the inquest on the body of Lewis ; Wilson, held this morning, the Coroner ' returned a verdict that the deceased met his death by drowning while in a state of intoxication. CHRISTCHURCH, September 18.' ' At Svrannanoa on - Saturday ,:•; afternoon » child aged three and a half /years, son of■■, Mr J. -S. .Hesel.tine,-: farmer,-"'was., drowned-in a waterhble in the farmyard. llie child had been with his father at the sheep pen near the yard and was last seen alive by his * parents walking towards the house. Half. an hour afterwards his brother, aged eight, on looking for him, found his body in the waterhole. Mr Hesel-. tine recbyerwl the body and did all in his power to restore animation but failed,-., 1 Mr T. A. B. Bailey, Coroner, held ail inquest yesterday afternoon and returned a. verdict of 'accidentally drowned. ' ! TIMARU, September 17. On Saturday night F. Duncan, nightwatchman on the dredge, was run down by a. shunting engine on the wharf and cut to pieces. It is not known exactly how the accident happened.. Ho was not on duty that night. He was about 65 years old arid for 30 years was harbour-master's coxwain. Ho wa.a a widower wTtli a grown-up family.