ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2132, 25 April 1914, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE BRIM RWINNER. SAD CASK NJiAR OIKHuRXK, (By Telegraph.—PrcM Clsborfio, April 24. 'At tho inquest on lid win White, who was tailed on Uio railway, :i verdict wm« returned that deceased was fiecW« , iita)i.y ilin nysrjjy a Ir.'iiii, Ho blamo being attachable to anyone. Much sympathy lias boon manifested with dpeensed's seven young orphan children. Ovi?r nno hundred pounds was subscribed yesterday in two Ohoko district.

INQUIKY INTO MOTOR FATALITY. Auckland, April 21. To-day Mr. C. CiiUen, S.M., mowed' taking ovidencv in the inqnest concerning the death of a railway, ganger named Samuel M'Frcdorick on tho night of April 11. A motor-oar driven by Joseph Benson'and containing Samuel IU '.Frederick, Frank forter, Myrtto IJrott, and Ellen Edeuborough, irmt with on accident, Ml'Voderick was dead when released from under the car. Tho others were nwro or less injured, tlio ladies getting tiff most lightly of the party, Benson, the driver of thi car, is still in Wpital, asd wjw uuoblo to bo- present at tbo inijuest.. Tho Coroner : said thero was nothing to show that anyotio ivas to Uamo for tbo > (recurrence. He found that tho cause of death was injuries received in a motor-car accident, the cause being tlio bursting of a. tiro, which caused tho car to overturn.

BJ7SHMAN LOSES A' LEG. MATES CAREY HIM EIGHT MILES. • Watiganuf, April 24. • A serious accident _ cer.urrol in. tho dense bush at Kaorikia, 3D miles from Wanganut. yesterday morning. A young man, named Jas, Pettigrew, aged 23, was engaged in felling a. "drive," when tlio last treo swn on its stump and fell, pinning Pottmrew to tlio ground, and crushing bis right leg terribly. His mate extricated him with difficulty 4 and wait for assistance, Nino men carried the sufferer on an improvised stretcher for eight miJs?6 through denso bjjsh, And over rough and precipitous tracks. Medical' attention was 6ocnrcd, and the sufferer Was admitted to tlio Wanwinui, Hospital at 11.30 p.m., 14i hours after tbo accident. Tho leg was amputated below tho Jyieo this mornijifc.

NATIVE WOMAN'S DEATH. Masterton, April 24. At tlin inquest to-dsy on tin* body of ilie Native woman who was found dead in bed yesterday a verdict was returned of death from natural causes,