FATAL ACCIDENT OT MR SEATON, M.H.R.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2689, 20 November 1882, Page 3

FATAL ACCIDENT OT MR SEATON, M.H.R.

An Association telegram on Saturday announced that Mr Seaton, M.H.R. for the Peninsula (Otago), had been thrown from his huggy and killed. A gram states that the deplorable accident has occasioned much sorrow in Dunedin, and adds, Mr Seaton, who lived some miles out of town on the Peninsula, had bought a new horse at the public saleyards in the morning, and was driving this horse about half-past two up Princes street. It took fright and bolted up Stafford street, eventually running the trap against a lamp-post in Hope street. The collision forced the horse from the trap, out of whieh Mr Seaton seems to have been pulled, probably by the reins, and he was dragged a little distance down the channelling. Two constables picked him up in an insensible state and bleeding freely, and he was taken to a neighboring hotel, where it was found by a medical man that his skull was badly fractured. He died within a minute or two of the accident. Mr Seaton was an old settler in the province, and had sat in the Provincial Council, and also for several sessions in the General Assembly, and had at one time gone home as Emigration Agent. At the last general election he was returned after a contest for the Peninsula, and on Tuesday evening next his constituents intended entertaining him at a banquet.