ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 100, 30 December 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

AN INFANT'S DEATH.

[Pub Pbess Association. I Auckland, December 30

At the. inquest into the death of Ernest Reginal McQuillan, aged two, who died yesterday, it was supposed from .the effects of eating lily berries, Dr. Kinder, who performed a post mortem, stated that he found fragments of undigested pork in the stomach, and expressed the opinion that this caused death. The mother admitted feeding the child on bread, pork, and weak tea. The coroner returned a verdict that death was due to convulsions arising from the child having been fed on pork.

TWO YOUNG MEN DROWNED.

Dunedin, December 29

A distressing fatality, by which two young men, residents of Ravensbourne, lost their lives, occurred at Taiaroa Heads about six o'clock this evening. It appears, that Thomas Shanks, and David Timlin wore-spend-ing the holidays at a "crib" at Maori Kaik, and about six o'clock they went out in a dinghy to take in a irtoki net, which had been set during the day. A brother of one of the men noticed the pair clinging to the keel of the boat, and immediately gave the alarm on shore. A launch was put out, but when it reached the boat the men had disappeared. Both men were fully dressed, but were good swimmers. Both were married. Timlin only twelve months ago. Shanks had one child.