ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2248, 7 September 1914, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

INQUEST CONCLUDED. ' The- inquiry into the death of Alice M'G'arfhy, a married woman, who died suddenly at her residence, Holloway Road, on August 25, was concluded by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., on Saturday.- A verdict' was returned in accordance with the evidence of Dr. W. £ington Fyffe that death. was due to a large quantity of air in the reins. HEALTH INSPECTOR INJURED..'. The Health Inspector, ' Mr. J. H. Cawdrey, mot with an accident in.Newtown at noon on Saturday, which neces-. aitated his removal to the Hospital. Hβ was riding a motor bicycle along Adelaide Road, when a horse attached to a nassin" express kicked out with its hind feet, knocking Mr. Cawdrey off the machine. Ho was conveyed to the.Hospital in' a bruised and stunned condition. A BUSHMAN INJURED. A bushfelling accident occurred at Berkahn'a contract in"the Pongaroa district. A yonng man named Brading cut his thigh badly with ,an axe, and. was brought into the Pahiatua.Hospvtal on Saturday. TWO MEN INJURED. A labourer named Hugh M'Coll, eighteen years of age, was admitted to tho Hospital'on Saturday night, suffering from concussion of the bram, occasioned by a fall in the street. His condition is not serious. • ' P. Alvis, a single man, 32 years of age,' a steward on the s.s. Arawa, was sent to the Hospital on Saturday night, suffering from a broken nose and slight concussion. It is understood that ho met with an acqidei\t on tho wharf. LITTLE BOY DROWNED. .'By Telegraph— Press Association;) Diinedin, September 5. Samuel Ohesney, aged 2i years, son of Joh'r Ohesney, was accidentally drowned in tho Waitati River yesterday.