ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2170, 8 June 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MILITARY PENSIONER'S .DEATH. Tho City Coroner, 3Jr. I>. G. A. Cooper, conducted an isopjoKt ou Saturday afternoon at the Grand National Hotel, i'etone, concerning the death' of Joirft Donoghue, a military pensioner, aged 83 years, who died. in feast sttddbnly on Saturday morning. Evitlsnce was invert by Geo. Cerrwood and his wife, the occupants of tho hosfso in which .dceeasftd resided, to tho ctfeet th-nfe on Frkky evening deceased appeared to bo in Ilia usual Jicaitli on retiring 4i 10 p.m. Ho was found dead in his' room at about 7.30 on Saturday morning. I»r, \Vilkins deposed that death wfts Arm to heart failure, and a voulkt to that clfect was recorded. KILLED AT WAIFA COLLIERY. ißy Telegraph.— Vttun AsswM.tton.s Uatitilton, Jo no {;. A. J. Smith, fl.gc4 52, a bttiWor at Hamilton, and late oi' tlw Thames, was killed on tho Waipa Collieries' private lino at To Akateii yesterday. Ho was; standing on tho lino wh*?tt's> truck of coal, impelled by gravitation, came down tho slopo jind jammed iiim ssainst a screening biim. Death was iustuiitaiic-. ous. WOMAN TMUM'ID. Christchtirofi, June (';. At Lake Coleridge this jnoriii(i({ a marriecl woman lmiivmi Dramncr was thrown out of a. dray, and a u-iiM . of tho vehicle, passed ov.-t lisr Monftftch. Shp was removed to tho iwspitulj mid is ia 6, serious fiOnditiofts . <