ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8779, 5 April 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, April 4.

At the inquest to-day on Daniel McIfay, lato cook on the scow Rangi, whose body was found in the harbor, 'a verdict of found drowned was returned. Dunedin, April 4. The adjourned inquiry touching the death of Geo. Francis Sand Hands concluded at the Courthouse, Balclutha. Nothing cal" culated to show the actual cause of the accident was elicited. Evidence from Kaitangata and that of Constable Marshall went to show that Sandilands had spent some time while there on the fateful day in the house of a friend, and when the constabie saw him leaving he appeared to be quite sober. Biehai - d Cornish, licensee of the Stirling Hotel, deposed that Sandilands had been four times at his house altogether on the day of the accident, once in the forenoon on a bicycle, and three times in'the afternoon, when oat driving-with his wife and child, but all the drink he had obtained, .to witness's knowledge, was two glasses of beer, a bottle of draught beer to drink on the road and two bottles of bottled beer (which were subsequently found intact in the buggy when fished out of the river). The verdict of the jury was that " deceased met his death by drowning in the t.Tutha river on "Wednesday night, 20th March, as the result of an pxcident by which his horse and trap were capsized into the river at "the cliffs on Lasborough road, but there is no evidence to show how the accident took place." A rider was added that the attention of the local authorities should be'called to the dangerous state of the road, and the jury also took occasion to compliment Mrs T. L. Morrison, the only witness of the occurrence, on her prompt action in going for assistance. Yesterday afternoon the body of Mrs Sandilands was discovered washed up en the river bank near the Presbyterian church at Inch Clutha. Thf-re was a great gash in the head. Caeteeton, April 5. A Maori girl named Hinekire to Kura, daughter of a Hawke's Bay chief, was drowned in the Ruaniahunga River whilst bathing opposite Papawai yesterday. Attempts were made to save her but were unsuccessful. The body was recovered later.