ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 18, 4 January 1912, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, January 2. The mystery attaching to the death by drowning of an elderly man named James Kerr whoso body was found floating near the Queen street wharf on Saturday, was investigated but not solved at tiio inquest held this morning. The cause of death was presumably drowning, and a verdict to that effect was found, the jury adding that there was nothing to snow how the body got into tne water. While on the voyage from Auckland to Fiji, a trimmer named Charles Moore aboard the Talune, became ill and died on December 21. He was buried the same evening. Christchurch, January 2. At the inquest on Mrs Alary MacDonald who died yesterday as a result of injuries received on Boxing .Day from falling off the Halswell coach, a passenger by the same coach stated that in his opinion the steps were dangerous, as the bottom step was set at an angle and the bottom stcpAvas broken. An old person or one not accustomed to it, would be liable to fall. The coroner stated that he had received a letter alleging that deceased’s family had beaten her. This was indignantly denied by members of deceased’s family. A verdict of death from injuries received in a fall from a coach was returned. Inquiries at the hospital to-day elicited the fact that the victims of the ccoach accident at Cass, are showing signs of improvement, though it will probably be a day or two before those still in the hospital will be able to leave it. Their early recovery is regarded as extremely likely. Timaru, January 2. Alfred Finch, employed a woo) store, was pushing a truck laden with wool on a §hed line when a bale caught the top of the doorway and fell on him. He died a couple of hours later. Deceased was an old resident and had been a borough councillor. Christchurch, January '3. ’ The body of a map aged 68 was. found in the Avon River this mbi;ningl It has not been identified'. Westport,' January 3. ' A post-mortem showed that a fractured skull was the cause of the death of Xormau, the letter-carrier who died while on a cycling tour on the Duller Road. Apparently he had had a fall and said nothing of ‘it. ‘ ' 1 ’