ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2172, 10 June 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

•SUDDKN DEATH AT TAITA. An elderly woman. named Ma-ry 'A. iie-nvell died' suddenly at Taita oft Monday. Deceased was apparently in good health in tho morning, bfft, Jator. she complained of sore throat. Her daughter attended her, and afterwards put her to bv*!, but slio died a few minutes later. Dr. Hector was. called in, and.' as heWas prepared to give .a- certificate nf death, the Coroner decided that an inquest. would not bo necessary. HORSE SLIPPED IN POOL. (By Tele jrath,—Props .ASsociationA Auckland, ifnuo S.Arthur Mann, aged 26 years, was drowned a!) Kiverhoad. He was crossing the rir«r on 'horseback when the animal slipped into a deep pool, flora which. Mann's body was recovered jalf an haur lat-er.' . ■ AHAURrEATALITY. Creymouth, June: 9. Word wis received in town this hiornmg that Mr. H. Linklntor, manager of tire -Hochstetter liad ''been found drowned at Rivet-vte-W, tin the Aha ura district, ... ' SHIP'S SLING BREAKS. • New Plymouth, Jutso 9. A wharf labourer named Fitzpatrick had a kg -broken ivliSle assisting to discharge t-iu> \Valkuro this morning, through a sling breaking. It is feared h& also suffered internal injuries, FELL IN FBOOTGF A TEUCK. thvercargtlf, June & Johp, Lucas-, «tii'pteyed at- the Ocean Beach Freezing Works, fell in front of .% moving track, the wheels passing over his legs and necessitating smpwtation. He died in {he Hospital this morning, Deceased w'a® married aaid leaves a widow and family. MOTOR-CYCLE & TRAMCAR. Clirlstchurcii, Juno 9. An inquest into the circumstances connected with the death' of Charles Thomas Hart Nicholls, who died as the result of m}-ur.i.oß received ift a'cotfeion between his' niotcir-cyclo and a, tramcar on tho .North Road yesterday, was hold this afternoon. ' A verdict wits recorded that,; deceased was aacstdentatly KMect by colliding, on his niotor-cycle, with a tra-me-ar. The Coraner said that it was. purely accidental, atid nobody was responsible:. » ....