CORONER’S INQUEST.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 691, 17 March 1852, Page 3

CORONER’S INQUEST.

On Thursday morning, the 11th inst., an In quest was held at the Victoria Hotel, before J. P. Fitzgerald, Esq., Coroner, and a respectable jury, on view of the body of Hannah Cracknell, a child aged 0 years, who was unfortunately killed by a kick from a horse. Isaac Earl Featherston, deposed—l am a Surgeon, practising in Wellington ; about 4 o’clock on Wednesday, the 10th March, I saw the deceased child Hannah Cracknell; when 11 arrived she was insensible, and had been vomiting blood,; the right shoulder was otit, and her collar bone fractured ; I have no doubt that her death was caused by some internal injury, the result of external violence; I was informed that the injury was inflicted by a kick from a horse. Mary Ann Cracknell, deposed,—l am the mother of tbe deceased Hannah Cracknell; on Wednesday morning, March 10, about half past ten o'clock, I heard the deceased call out. I was in the house at the time; 1 immediately ran to her assistance, and found her lying on the ground, about 100 yards from the house; the deceased told me that a horse hud kicked her on the shoulder; she was reaching and vomiting blood ; Dr. Featherston saw hei in the afternoon, she died at 12 o’clock the same night ; the horse was the property of Mr. Hodder; there was no other horse near the place, and I knew the animal from having been once the property of Mr. Irons. The Jury returned the following verdict: —“ That the deceased came by her death by a kick from a horse, received on Wednesday 1 the 10th March,” and added to the Vordict the following memorandum. “Thatthis Jury would call the attention of the Resident Magisi trate to the number of cattle allowed to stray i in town, by which life is endangered; and i would respectfully request that he would adopt f some measures for the prevention of the > same."

Programme of the performance of the Band of the 65th Regt., at Te Aro Fiat, on Friday, March 19th:— 1. Overture—D Eduardo E Cristina Rossini. 2. Aria—Sol pianto il ciglio versa—Le I’rophete Meyerbeer 3. Donnybrook Quadrilles O'Brien 4. Cavatina—Solta una querdia parveini— Grovani D‘Arco Verdi 5. Der Martraume Waltzer. Metternich 6. Row Polka Jullien.