ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2245, 3 September 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

; .PUYSEGUR POINT BOATING : ' FATALITY. i FURTHER DETAILS. (By Telegroph-Preas Assoolatlon.l f Invorcarglll, September 2. Further information regarding the Puysegur Point boating accident is to ' band, which goes to show that all went well until the boat entered the narrow ■ passage leading to the landing on the • return journey, when the boat caps'ieed. . The body of Smith was found, washed . Up underneath the wharf. 'Mrs. Lou- • den's body was interred at Puysegur "on Bundav. . The opinion expressed by the constable, in his report was that the occurrence was purely accidental, no blame being, attachable to anyone. , Owing to,the inaccessibility of the place ;-, no inquest was Md.' ••' '■■■■':■■[■ 'A MAORI WOMAN'S DEATH. (By Telegraph.—Prose Association.) Blenheim, September 2. , Elizabeth Black, a Maori woman, married to a European, was found in. • !, wh&re at Wairau on August 30 last, lying with her face and breasts almost burnt to a cinder, having evidently fallen, in a .fit, into the fire. She iraf taken-1« tho. Hospital where she diec l to-day, DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. Dunedln, September 2. The inquest on William Holt, who . died at Portobello yesterday,_ revaled Hie fact that he had heart disease of long standing. A verdict of death from heart failure was returned. Deceased was 48 years of age, and at one'time was a prominent Vincent County foot- . bailer. ' : WOMAN DIES UNDER CHLOROFORM. HasMngß, September 2. At the inquest concerning the death' of Mrs. Florence Sarah Collins, who died yesterday at a private hospital under chloroform, whilst undergoing an operation, a verdict was returned fhaV death, was due'to embolism, the existence of which could not hare been detected by the medical men. ' . CHILD'S BODY FOUND ON THE - BEACH. The body of an unknown • and pre-maturely-born male child was found on the rocks at Houghton Bay yesterday by Thomas M'Phee, a tramway employee.- The body was conveyed to the morgue. A labourer named Thomns North', living at 278 Taranaki Street, was admitted to the Hospital yesterday afternoon with one of his ankles fractured. Thomas Wilson, a corporation emplovco. was admitted to _ tho Hospital yesterday mornino! suffering from a fracture of the shoulder. Wilson is a married man 60 years old and resides ofc 56 Aro Streets