ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2322, 2 December 1914, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Y'A LABOURER'S DEATH,, An inquest was freld by Mr. D. 6. A. Cooper, S.M., yesterday afternoon into the: death of William George Smith, a labourer, who was found dead in bed at the residence of his brother at Karon on Saturday. Dr. Kington Fyffe, who conducted a post-mortem examination on the body of deceased, said that death was due to uraemia, caused by Btone in the left kidney, followed by cystio disease. • The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

, SUICIDE OF A LABOURER. (By Telegraph.—Press ABsoolatlon.) Auokland, December 1. _An inquest was held to-day into the circumstances of the death of Percy Mason, a labourer, of Tokomaru Bay, who was found shot through tho head in a room of the Imperial Hotel on Sunday morning. Deceased was a man of about forty years of age, well supplied with money, but of an absentminded and taciturn disposition. He had been ten days in the city,' and the loss of a dog .which he had brought with him seemed to worry him. The report of a revolver, heard on Sunday morning, alarmed the hotel inmates, and Mason was found in his room dead. His bed had not been slept in. The Coroner returned a verdict of suicide.

ROTORUA DROWNING ACCIDENT. Rotorua,. December 1. ' The body of Herbert Webb, one of the victims of the drowning disaster of November 22, was found this afternoon floating in Lake Rotorua,',, half'a mile east of where the accident happened.

SUDDEN DEATH. Dunedin, December L George Edward Taylor, an elderly man, .residing at Owaka, became ill at the Dunedin Railway Station'this morning, and expired on his way to the hospital. Ho had been suffering from heart trouble.