ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 674, 26 November 1909, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

.THE DISTRESSING RAKAIA ißy Telegraph—Press Association! ; ; '..;; Christchurch, November 25;'. The search for tho remaining, bodies of. the victims of the .boating' fatality,'at. tho 'mouth of'the Rakaiastill continues, aud, last night, another large party ; patrolled the beach to th« north and eouth. None of the other bodies had been recovered up'to midday to-day. It was hoped that the bodies might bo /ciwt up by the high tide at one o'clock , this morning,- but I this did not, happen. A feature of tho terrible accident .is the manner, in. which the .residents of the township .and ■ surrounding districts' have so i willingly aided in the search, Some of them have not been to bed> since Monday night, and intend to go ;. out to the beach again to-night. , ' '/• ~- •• '. At an inquest on tho body of Miss Rountree, • held at Southbridge to-day, ■ before. Mr. H.W. Bishop, coroner, a. verdict of accidental death from drowning was recorded. . The body was convoyed to CUristchurch by,: the morning train.v": V , : ■ ;■,'•■■■.■■' : \'-' : >.'r. '■.-■-.'■'■ ::; . : ' Young Baxter is still in''an .hysterical con; dition, and is confined to his bed. Ho. was consequently' unable to. appear/: at. the inquest. /: : ;■';■■■ : '■'■ " AN'ESCAPE OF'''G'A'S; ■■:;) ' : ;]"j:- '~■■'■■'■•. ■:' ■''■■.■ Auckland, November ; 2s;.■ :. Karl ■ Boyehs, a seaman about 21 years :.of age, was found dead in his bunk on the fishing boat Loyett at 2.45 a.m. The boat is fitted with an. auxiliary. motor. Boycns retired -ntVlLsO S.m., and later was found lying limp.-.'He was ragged on deck and wateiv dashed on to ", his face, but was found to bo 'dead.'.-: Presumably , an escape ; of gas hadovorcoino; him. The jury found that cleath was caused by carbonic oxide poisoning.■"■•' ■■■v,-:.-.;' : ":■.':'';./ ;■'■':•

:' "•.-. DRO'WNED;AT^OTOBTDA.,..:.;UV ■ ' - Rotorua, November 25; ; 1 Tewkosbury Benyon was; drowned 1 on-Lake Rotorua • yesterday afternoon, as. tho ros,ult. of ■a boat accident. Deceased, who was a, patient' in -thb.sanatoriuroi'/in', company, with "three others—two of ■whom nre also DnUeuts of - the sanatorium—went for a ..sail. •' When; the boat was. close to Mokoia' Island ; a gust Vof tvihd caught and capsized it. The four occupants '.citing'to tho boat for an hour and;a'half. , 'Deceased then attempted to swim to the island, about' three. hundred yards distant, but sank when sixty wrds from , , the-boat. The body was recovered by a .-Maori.--. At an inquest :totlayj the verdict was that deceased had been accidentally, drowned. ■ Benyon was 2!) years of age, and , a resident of, Auckland.; His'father at ono time was editor of the ""Kuiuraa Times.";,: ;■-■-■ ' - : ; ",...> -r*. .■■■,-- ;.~>.^' : v v"THEPATIENT COLLAPSED." : , : :{ " : ' :., f:'' , . Christcnurch, November 251; ' Elizabeth Voyce, a patient at the hos: pital.died this afternoon wliilo undergoing'an operation. At inquest the evidenco showed that deceased ,wa9 : sufforing from- , a '; tumour from which she would have succumbed if,the operation had not been performed:.' Chloroform was first administered," and .then ether, under. , which tho patient collapsed.' A verdict of death J by' misadventure was returned.; .'•'.[ ;"■... ;. ;■■:;' ■ ■;.■;/'.-■ V' rsupDEN^pEATii.-;:.'1- kV : .;';■; ■'.'.•■ ■-' '■'■ : ' \ .■-"'•■ ■';■..'''• /.-■ Duncdin, November 25/:; ■•■■ James Williamson, an old • farmer from Allanton, who had lately retired) and .been liv\ing at Outran], dropped dcad'.at,the show gates at 11 o'clock this morning, it ■ is: supposed from heart-disease." '._■■; ' ):.. : ' : '/\ '-;-.-' ':.; -'x h ';'■■'•.' FOUND ON KAIWAREA,BEACH. %'■}!. "The polios received .information , last night from , tho postmaster : at Kaiwarra. that,'a body had been found'-on: ithe. beach.'.'.Twb\ stables'were-at. onco dispatched, to the spot with a stretcher. "The body ,, was found about twelve'yards but from, the Kaiwarra- , Wharf,' iand had apparently been in the water for some time. Deceased appears- to -have been , a fairly, strongly-built: man, about sft. ; 9ih. in height.' There ■ was nothing about him to (jive a clue to his idcntity, : the only arfioles found in his pookots being a knife and a: pipe. , was' removed to' the morgue,' where an .inquest will' probably be-held, to-day.. .. '~'"-.. , '/.