Accidents and Fatalities

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 111, 12 March 1891, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities

(PEK TTXITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.) CHBTSTCHrrBCH, March 10. At the inquest on t!ie bodies of Mr Brown and son, drowned at the month .of the Wniinaltariri on Sunday, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. Mr Brown was a good swimmer, but he was either seized with cramp or carried down by the underflow caused by the current of the river meeting the incoming tide, Inveboabgill, March 10. The body of John Warm, rabbiter, who has been missing from Gallanders' run. Waijraia. since, the 28th was found face up m a swamp at the foot of a steep cliff r his clenched hands only appearing above the surface of the water. He was subject to fits and it is supposed to have taken one and rolled down' and been drowned. Warm, who was a Scotchman anl an eccentric creature, was greatly disßguved by a powder explosion some years back. He was well-known here in the Hospital and to the police. He was sent for trial to the Supreme Court about two years ago on a charge of com mil ting n serere assault on a householder, to whose door he went at midnight. Auckland, March 10. A yonnsr lady of 18 years, Miss L. Fen- , ir vis., was thr -wn from her horse while riding at Paparoa, and dragged by the stirrup for some distance Her skull was fractured, and after lingering in an unconscious state. for about a day Mis* Fenwick died. on Sunday evening. March li. A well-known settler of Kaukapapa, James Fultonr has been'found drowned. No particulars are yet to hand. Manaia, March 11. Thomas Parsons, of Otakcuo, went out of his house this morning to shoot a dog: .which/ was worrying his sheep.. He was found dead'shortly after "with a gunshot through him. Auckland; March 11. The report curreut in Tauranga that a resident of Whuugatnata had been arrested for murder, is denied. -A fatal fiijht occurred recently at Whangamata between a. Maori and European, but the. police decline to give news until further inquiries have been made. No one r however, has yet been arrested. Giseosne, This Day. The -police have received information from the Mahia Peninsula that a man, name not stated, was blown out to sea in an open boat on Monday' night, and'hasnot since been heard of. -