Accidents and Fatalities.
[By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) TiMARUj/This day. An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of Maurice O'Connor, aged 18. The jury found that death was due to the inhaling of the fumes of phosphorus while engaged in poisoning rabbits in the Mackenzie Country last month. This is the second death from this cause this season. Dunedin, This day. Ferdinand Himmel, aged 61 years, employed as a runner in the Star office, died of heart disease last night. He leaves a widow and a grown up family. While driving to Fowlers from Apiti on Wednesday morning Mrs H. Osborne narrowly escaped what might have been a fatal accident (says the Feilding Star). Mrs Osborne, who was accompanied by three children, was driving up the cutting on the Birmingham side of Miss Fowlera when she met another vehicle coming in the opposite direction, and the horse she was driving backed off the road at a very dangerous spot. Fortunately there was a fence a few feet below the level on the road which prevented the vehicle and its occupants being lodged in the gully below. Mrs Osborne was assisted out of her awkward predicament by Messrs Bowler, Short, and Miller, who happened to be on the cutting at the time.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 318, 10 May 1897, Page 2
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