ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[ IBt.-; TIMOBIPH—PEESS; iSSOCUTIOIIJ SUPPOSED HEART DISEASE. Auckland, January 4. John Richard Cook, a married . man, 3& years of age, when visiting a friend, had just taken a seat, when he .expired. He had beep treated for heart disease. OVERBOARD FROM A SCHOONER. (BY ASSOCIATION ) Auckland, January 4. Henry Harding, aged 35, an' able , a ama» on the schooner Saxon, fell overboara fro» \ that vessel this afternoon, and Tvas drowned HOTEL PORTER'S SUICIDE., Napier, January 4. An inquest was held to-day on 'th<» hotel porter, Wooster, who shot himself in the Caledonian Hotel on Sunday morning. H W Brabant was coroner. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased died-from a'wound'self-inflicted. DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER. (8* TELEGRAPH—PEESS ASSOCIATION ) Masterton, January 4. Tho death occurred on Sunday evening of Joseph Whatton, a very old settlor f., the Masterton district, in his 97th yew VDeceasod had been in the Dominion ioi over fifty years. m 5 FOUND DROWNED.Bluff, January 4. A fisherman named George Thomas, agei 30, a native of Wales, uas found drowned m the harbour on Sunday morning. It is presumed that he fell overboard while getting aboard his cutter. At tho inquest tins morfling a verdict of found drowned was rethrnod THE RIMUTAKA RAILWAY MISHAP. Engine-driver Huntley, one of tho oldest 1 sonants in the railnay service, is at present i confinod to his homo Tilth t^o fractured ribs, v caused.through.being struck with the piston rods or other gear or an "E" engine, which broke doivn last weok while ascondaae the Rimutakas Mr Huntley nas mvcttigating the breakage, when some of tho machinery kicked suddenly, and he suffered, lnjurj. Tho same locomotive broke down tivico during the Christmas holidays. THE KAIWARRA FATALITY." It has been decided that it will not br necessary to hold an inqurst on tho remaini of tho man, Adam M'Nab, who was found dead at his residence m Kaiwarra on Sunday afternoon.