ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 2 April 1913, Page 9

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

CYCLIST COLLIDES WITH .MOTORCAR. .; (By IWograpfcr-PwM- Ajioola^oa.); ' Timaru, April 1. : i[r." P. Dickson, ; clerk 'iii the.'Money Order Department : 0/ - the Timaru -Post Office, while cycling in town to-night collided -with a motor-car by the owner (Mi\ C. Besley), and sustained a severe scalp wound. He was token to a private hospital,' iniconscious and 1 died shortly after, lie was on tho wrong side, 'and. (iid nit tiira off till near the car, winch .'turned off to avoid 'him. and Dickson turning oft too, the collision occurred. He was a married man with no.children. MISHAP TO SEA CAPTAIN. Captain Christian, the well-known mas-, ter 'of >tjie .Blackball; ..Coal, Company's .steamer Ngatofoj./.mefeiWjfh an, accident, ut Wellington yesterday. Tho Ngatpro was Jierthed alongside the New Zealand -Shipping .Company's - '- mail steamer Ruahine,: and whilst'.-Captain - Christian . was Kissing, froiiKone steamer -to the. other, ■lie misled his footing and fell a distance of 20. feetbetween thCvessels, sustaining a' severely-cut knee and other injuries. HUN OVER BY GOODS TRAIN, Te.Kujti, April 1. : ' A body was found oh the railway about 'half )a mile north of To Kuiti last night, and was identified this morning- as that of Celia Mackenzie, aged eighteen years, a sister of the proprietress of a well-known boardinghouse at Kelvin Grove. Deceased had beeirrnn over by a goods train leaving To Ivuiti for Frankton Junction -about 10 o'clock. An inquest is being held to-day. -- - ■i. FOUND IN THE HARBOUR. ' Auckland, April 1. A dead body was foun,d' in the, harbour this-morning. -It had evidently been in the.water about ft fortnight. 'It.is-that of a man sft. lOin. in,height, with a short dark beard. So far it' has not been identilied. Tho clothing suggests that deceased was a'labourer. ,'\ SEVERELY BURNED. , '■ j- ■ f •" ' Dunedin, April'l. Thomas Mee, employed on'the Catlins River railway,'' was admitted to the rHospital to-day suffering fro;u. severe burns. He accidentally threw a lighted match into some powder; and was at once enveloped in flames. He is suffering severely from'shock. INQUESTS. . . An inquest on the body of . William Oliver O'Reilly; who died suddenly at No. 4 -Lorne-Street at 11.30, a.m. on Sun- 1 : day last, was held by .the .City Coroner • (Dr. A. M'Arthftr, S.M.) yesterday evening. 'The covoritfr returned a verdict to the effect-that the deceased died whilst iii an advanced stage of consumption through^tho effect of excessive drinking. Yesterday morning the City Coroner (Dr. A. M'Arthur, b.JI.) held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a female child found in tho Windsor Hotel on March 18 last. -Chief Detective Broberg represented the police. Dr.. Kington Fylfe stated that Hie. body was fully developed. From the condition of the lungs ; tho. child had breathed. There was nothing to show by what means the child lost its .life except that judging by the condition of the lungs .it might liavo been caused .by • suffocation during .or directly after birth. Dr. William M'Caw; a house surgeon at the Wellington Hospital, Detective Bailey, and. Constable Al'Kelvey aho gave' evidence. Tho coroner's verdict was that death was due to suffocation oitlier during or immediately after birth. Subsequently a young woman named' Martha Bern' was "arrested and brought before Mr. W. G- Riddel],-S.M., charged with concealment of Ijirtli.' She Was remanded for eight days. ■ , "Remeni'jer you may meet with in acci- . dent any day. Remember tho Occm Accident Corporation's Leader Policy covers • all accidents and 50 diseases. Remember ; to take out a Policy To-day-—Advt.