ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2773, 17 May 1916, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

» A CHILD'S DEATH. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., opened an inquest yesterday to ascertain the cause of the .death of Esme Brookes, who passed away on the voyage of the Moeraki from Sydney to Wellington last week. The little girl, who was five, years of age, was travelling in the care of her mother at tho timo of her death. She had bpen in good health up to the time of leaving Sydney, but suffered from seasickness on the voyage. After half-a-dozen witness had been, heard yesterday, the inquest was adjourned until the result of the postmortem examination could be placed before- the Coroner. A BROKEN LEG. Leslie Barnard, a resident of Tonks Grove, off Cuba Street, was admitted to the Wellington Public Hospital yesterday sufteiing from a broken leg. He received the injury through falling from a ladder at the meat works, at Ngahauranga.

A WOMAN POISONS HERSELF. By Telcgrapn—Props Association. ; ' Auckland, Hay IG. May Kerr, wife of John Kerr, residing at Newmarket, died as the result of. drinking poison. Her husband administered an emetic before death. Britannia gave a cheer or two When Wellington wou Waterloo. If Buonaparte had won tho fight Britannia might have hid "good night." When winter coughs and colds arc rife, And each is battling for his life, Wise Britons make tho victory sure With bottles of Woods' Poppermint Cure. -Advt.