DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

INQUEST VERDICT, i By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] PALMERSTON N., July 17. Circumstances surrounding the death of Alfred Wiilliam Geang, a resident of Feilding, aged 42 years, who died following a collision between a motor cycle he was riding and a goods train at a level crossing at Fcilding, were investigated by the Coroner this morning who returned a verdict that deceased died from a clot of blood lodging in the arteries of the heart, the result of collision injuries. The collision was an accident. Apparently deceased was deaf and not hearing the train’s warning whistle and for an unknown reason failed to see the train approaching. No blame was attachable to the engine driver.

HAMMOND IMPROVING. CHRISTCHURCH, July 17. Hammond’s condition to-day is improving though weak from loss of blood. An X.-ray will he used to locate the bullet which graded the left lung. A NARROW ESCAPE. : : , CHRISTCHURCH, July 17. Ernest Bristow, a married man, had a narrow escape from drowning when crossing a ford on the main drain two 1 miles, from Kaiapoi. His horse stumbled and the dray struck the piles of a railway bridge and overturned. Bristow cliing on to piles and was assist'edifrom the water in an .exhausted condition. The horse was drowned.