ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 19, 5 January 1912, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) • Auckland, January; 3. • The body of William, Andrews, who was drowned" on ’Christmas Day, while crossing the Ongarue river when in flood, in a Maori canoe, has been recovered. The deceased had been employed on railway construction works. Palmerston JaVitiafy 3. The police yesterday discovered some human, remains wrapped up iu a blanket on Foxton road. Medical examination revealed that the bones, which included a skull and leg bones, were very old, and" were' those of a Maori, and it is surlnHed that they Wore left by Maoris when being conveyed from one cemetery to another. Dunedin, January 3. A man named George Horton, aged 71 years, was found this afternoon hanging by the neck at the rear of His residence in Castle street. He was then dead. Apparently it was a case of suicide. Wellington, January 3. An inquest was held to-day by Mr. W. G. Riddel S.M., on the body of John Calvert, an elderly man, who was burnt to death in a hoardinghouse in Taranaki street early tin's morning. The evidence showed that deceased who had a wooden leg, came homo intoxicated the previous evening and was helped up to bed. When the house was discovered to he on fire later on, efforts were made to got him out of the room, but lie became abusive and would not go. Other occupants of the house had to save themselves. The firemen wore notified that there was a man in the house and fixed ropes to the window hut unavailingly. A verdict was returned that Calvert was burnt to death, and had lie been sober would have had a hotter chance of escape; also that he having a wooden log, he had less opportunity of escaping than a man in full possession of His limbs. No blame was attachable to the proprietor of the boarding-house, who had done what lie could. | It is not known whether deceased! had any relatives in Wellington.