ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2554, 31 August 1915, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

» r MOTORING FATALITY. . IBy Telefrasli.—l'rcsß AesoclatlonJ Hastings, August 30. Whilst motoring along Oceali Boach Road yesterday, Stanley Robert I'itt, soil of Thomas* Pitt, Be'uoni, Hastings, went over a cutting. He struck a treo t and was rendered unconscious, and fell into tho Jtaraetotara River, whore his body was found some time later. This 0 is the third sou Mr. Pitt has lost <lur- \ ing the last two years. One was killed 0 in the landing at the Dardanelles. „ DEATH DURING AN OPERATION. >l Dunedin, August 30. ,l Florence Hurndell, aged eighteen, died suddenly at Palmerston South on ,fc Saturday, wiiilo tuiclev£oiug; an opera- . tion for septic throat. e The inquest on the body of Florence e Hurndell, who collapsed under an a anaesthetio prior to an operation at u Palmerston on Saturday, was held toe day.. Tho evidence showed that de--5 ceased had been operated on previously0. for appendicitis, and had not been in good health since. Saturday's operation 6 was for violently septic throat-. A vers diet of death from heart faiiuro was returned. 1 SUDDEN DEATH IN A PADDOCK. . e Ashuurtnn, August 30. e John Topping, twenty years of age, a only son of Andrew Topping, farmer s at Elgin, near Ashburton, while in a i- paddock this morning was suddenly e taken ill with some kind of seizure. Ho became blue in the faoe, and fell over the side of the trap in which he was e sitting. A doctor was immediately x summoned from Ashburton, but on art rival found life extinct. a GOLDMINES, KILLED. I Hokitika, August 30. t Max Orteraanu, a single man, aged twenty-five years, was killed at Ross t> goldfields mine on Saturday night, ii While engaged in timbering a cross-cut r drive a heavy fall took place, completely burying him. It took five hours 9 to recover tho body. Tho man's mate s had a, lucky escape, being thrown to . safety, by the falling timbers.