ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2397, 1 March 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SAILOR KILLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Westport, February 27. The Kini, bound from Lyttelton to Greymouth, put in. at Westport at 2.15 D.rn. At noon a sailor named John Johnston, aged 34 years, fell from .aloft to the deck. Hb died at 1.15. ' At an inquest, a verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased was up tho riggiug to overhaul the derrick tacklcs, and four minutes afterwards was found on the deck, badly injured. He died in an hour. Deceased was a Shetland Wander, and a single man. He joined tlio ship at Wellington on February 8. FLAXMILL HAND DROWNED. Foxton, February 27. . 'An accident occurred at Gibbs' Maitai mill last night, when C. Saunders, a i Haxmill employee, single, aged about 'twenty-six years, was drowned. A. boat containing Mrs. Roberts got adrift, and deceased, in -walking out to secure it, got out of his deptn, and 6ank._ Itio body was recovered this morning. Deceased had no relatives in New Zealand. , ' H BOWLER KILLED. Auckland, February 27. Mr. Alfred Billing, a member of the Thames bowling team visiting Auckland, fell from a Takapuna tramcar lasti night, and sustained concussion of the brain. He died in the Auckland Hospital this morning. ; AN OPEN VERDICT. " Auckland, February 27.' At an inquest on the body of the man found in the harbour, the evidence showed that there was a letter in one of tifo pockets of the man's clothes, addressed to "Thomas Hawkins, Tauranga Hotel, Tauranga." Deceased was employed on a farm belonging to Mr. Rome, of Tauranga. An open verdict was returned. ;

FOUND DEAD IN BED. An old man of 70 years of age, named John Reynolds, was found dead in bed yesterday morning, at 44 Manners Street. Deceased was a widower, with a grown-up family. The facts of the case have been referred to'tho Coroner. to decide as to whether an inquest is necessary.