ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DROWNED, (By TelecraDh—Press Assoela-tl^n.S Blenheim, December 20. Annio Louisa" Eves, aged 3i', was found drowned in a pool of water behind tlio residence of her father. Mr. J. C. Hooper, in Wairau Vnltej-, on Christmas Day. At tlio inquest mcdical evldcnco was given that deceased was suffering from mystero-epilepsy. and probably fell into the water wlior. suffering from a lit. The jury returned an opoii verdict. THROWN FROM HIS HORSE. Marton, December 29. On Boxing Day a middle-aged man, jiamed Walter George Dontford, was thrown from a horse at Marton Junction. Ho received a fractured skull and died on Sunday morning. Ho leaves a widow and one child. INTERNAL INJURIES CAUSE DEATH. Auckland, December 29. Harry Welsford, a married man, ngc-d sixty-one, was injured at Tuskau on Saturday by his liorse shying on to the footpath and throwing him against, a tolegraph polo. lie received severe internal injuries, from which ho died yesterday. POISONOUS BERRIES. Auckland, December 29. Ernest Reginald M'Quillan, aged two, who was visiting Auckland with his parents, died to-day from the effects of lily berries which he ate the previous oven* ing. _ SUDDEN HEAR! 1 SEIZURE. Waipav/a, December 29. Nollo del Toso, aged twenty-four, a single man, was bathing in tlio river with somo companions yestetday when ho suddenly -threw up Jlis arms and sank. Tlio l>od.y was not recovered for ono hour. Ho suffered from ft weak heart, and a sudden seizure was the causa of death. EARLY SETTLER DROWNED. Taumarunul, December 29. H. de Vero Hunt, an elderly nian, one of the early settlers in the King Country, was found drowned in the Ong.anie River, near Taumaruiiui, yesterday morning.