ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1305, 7 December 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

DROWNED IN A DAM. (By Telegraph—l'rcfe Association.) Gore, December 6. At an inquest at Waikaia yesterday concerning tho death ol Thomas Ban'ett, aged 81, who was fomid drowned m tlio jfvstery Flat, dredging dam 011 Sunday, Mr. H. A- Young, coroner, returned a voi-dict of found drowned. RUN OYER BY A TRAM. Auckland, December .6. All inquiry into tho death o[ a littla girl named Flora May M'Donald, who was run over by a tram car on November 25,"concluded to-day. The jury brought in a verdict, to tho effect that deceased was killed by being run over by car 102, and that the motorni3U did not keep a proper look out. LINESMAN'S DEATH. Ouncdin, December 6. At an inquest coiiooivtinp tho death of Charles Neville, foreman linesman of th» city trams, who was killed while rescuing a linesman caught on a live wire, tho evidence showed that death was duo to injuries to the head and elic.st, A vordict of accidental death, there being no negligence 011 the part of tho department, was returned. AT THE GASWORKS. An inquest is to lie held this morning enncel'iiing the death of Patrick Ki-okrh. Deceased was found i'.( tho hot (> 1 ladder at the gasworks 011 Sunday morning. and it was subsequently iii-oeltamod that lie had sustained a fraetuml skull, iio was removed to the public hospital, wlioro be, died yesterday. PROPRIETOR OF "ROSS'S." On Tuesday afternoon Archibald Buchanan, proprietor <if the Ross's Private. Hole), 2113 Vivian Street, was t'miud in ail outbuilding with lus throat cut. At. present bo is in tho public hospital in a low condition.

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