ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2263, 24 September 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

! PTOMAINE POISONING. ■DANGER FROM CRAYFISH AND MDSSELS. ... (Dj IWeffr*Bh.—Preta Associations Hawera, September 23. A Native named. Kau a te Eangi, residing at Ketemarao Pa, Normanby, died on Sunday morning, the reeult of ptomaine poisoning. Hβ had ' eaten crayfish. At tho inquest on Tuesday Dr. MacDiarmid stated that ptomaine germs developed very quickly in hot weather, and it was dangerous to partake- of'shell fish unless they-were perfectly, fresh. Crayfish and mussels were particularly liable to be affected. Hβ urged the Natives to be very careful. He gaye evidence that the cause of death was ptomaine poisoning. A verdict was 'returned in accordance with the medical testimony. ■' FATAL FALL THROUGH GLASS VERANDAH. Auckland, September 23. A lad named Evelyn JoTinson, a student at a private college in Ferry Buildings, stepped out of a window on to a glass verandah, and fell through to tho pavement, a distance of 25 feet. He died instantly, his neck being broken. :. ■. gBOATING FATALITY. • Whangarei; September 23. Joseph Keye, aged twenty, was drowned in the harbour near Onerahi yesterday through the swamping of a' dinghy while he was engaged in fishing. Tho body ho.s not been recovered. ■ SUDDEN DEATH.' , Whangaral, September 23. 'A single man, \Jolm King, aged 31, an engineer at ' the Limestone Island Cement Works, died suddenly on a launch.last, night. While proceeding to Wbangarei ho had an epileptic seizure. • KILLED BY AN EARTH FALL. Huntly, September 23. ; An inquest was held at Huntly this morning by Mr. E. Rawson, S.M., regarding the,:death of Frank Batson; a, labourer, 'aged "29, single, who mot his death while : working on the Pukemiro railway construction works on Holiday last, through a fall of earth. The evidence showed that the; fatality ..was purely accidental, and a verdict ™s returned accordingly. -.'''.'. /