ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1965, 23 January 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' (fty Telezfajh.—Pf«i! Aswelatton.l ."- ' -—-—4 •' ' .■• RECOVERED IN THE HARBOUR. : AiKklSHd, January 22, '• The body which was found in'tb* linrbour yesterday morning li-as been identified' as that of' John lTvine, : a voting .married man who was drowned, through an accident wlifliv fishing in the harbour on. Saturday afternoon. An. unusual circumstance is that; although the. bedy had only' ''feu in the- watei four days, it "'as deroftinosed to.suph an ■ extent' as to rfiidor it. unrecognisable, ovoii to-.friends of deceased. -\ watch and locket. . feiiud -amanf- ■ t«? 'clothing, -bowo'ver,' led to' identification ■•■■•'• MIDNIGHT SMASH.. , ~ , , Aucklaprf, Jiiiiuary 22. A fine new t.ixi-wir, containing font , occupairts. camo'jntrt collision- 1 with,"a.' tree in .Graftin Road at. midmcjlst, Tho car was badly smashed,, and the driver, David Barnes, and olio , .pa6-seiK>;er were, nitched through the glass wind; screen. Barnes, whose kneo was Hadly. injured, was removed to the hospital. ~- . ■ OVER EMBANKMENT. ' ■ Wansanui, January 22.■An elderly mail limned William Glcntworth, a rcsidbnfof WheiMiakura, nearPatoa, was found.dead this morning. He had evidently fallen down an em. bankment on to % river-bed, and died as tho result of injuries so sustained. DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC. Tho death of.a young woman,,which' took place under an.anaesthetic at the- ' Wellington. Hospital oh Wednesday ■afternoon, was reported to the ponce yesterday. ' The deceased was a married woman named Eunice King, aged 30, of 3 Jacob's Placo. She had previously been operated ■on for. a« , mtornal trouble, but was not progressing very well. On Wednesday she was again placed on the operating table., with a view to another operation being- per- ! formed, but expired Wilder iho annpsI tltetic, chloroform,, before this operation could lio carried out. _Tho coroner has boon connnunicatot with, and an m'quest will probably be held. .