ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 99, 29 December 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

AN ONEHUNGA FATALITY. [Per Press Association.] Auckland, December 28. , John William Hall, 30 years old, widower, and a recent arrival in Onehunga, was found floating in the Manucau Harbor on Saturday. Ho had leen missing since Christmas Day. His neck was broken, apparently from falling from the wharf. At an inquest i verdict was returned that Hall had )een accidentally killed. , Auckland,. December 28. Harry"Welsford, a niarried man, 61, ,vas injured at Tuak.ni on Saturday >y his horse'swerving on to the foot)atii and throwing him against a telegraph pole. He received severe interin] injuries from which he died yesterlay. . ' > AN INFANT'S DEATH. Auckland East,-December 29. ' Ernest Reginald MeQuiliian, ageu i two, who was visiting Auckland with ! lis parents, died to-day from the ■fleets of lily berries which he ate on he previous evening. DROWNED WHILE BATHING. Waipawa, .December 28. jNello Del Tosp,.'aged 24, single, was jathing in the river with companions .'osterday, when suddenly he threw op lis anus and sank,. The body was. not •ecovered for one hour. Deceased •.offered from a weak heart, and a sudlon seizure was the cause of death. THROWN FROM HIS HORSE.

Morton, December 28. Gil Boxing 'Day, 1 a middle aged man lamed Walter George Dentford was brown from his horse/; at Marion I unction, receiving a fractured 'skull; tie died on- Sunday morning, and eaves a widow and one child. At the inquest a verdict was reourried that death resulted from a fracture- of the base of (the skull, the result jf falling off his horse. ! EARLY SETTLER'S DEATH, Taumaruntii, December 28. H. De Yere Hunt : , an-elderly man, nd one of the early settlers in the ving Country, was found drowned in he Onga'rue River, near Taumarului yesterday morning. FOUND IN POOL OF WATER. Blenheim, Decemher 29. Annie Louisa Eves, 32, was found frowned in a pool of water behind the residence of her father, Mr J. C. Hooper, "Wairau Valley, on Xmas day.* Medical evidence showed that deceased was suffering from hystero epilepsy uid probably fell into the water whan suffering from a fit. The jury returnid an open verdict.