ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 80, 25 March 1914, Page 8

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

[Per Press Association.] Christchurch, March 24

James Landrigan, who was' thrown front jus horse at Little HivCr railway station and admitted to the Christchurch! Hospital yesterday, died there last night. At the inquest held today, Dr, Scott * stated’that the man never regained consciousness after admittance' to the lios|)ital. Death was due to fracture of the base of the skull. 1 ' Evidence was given that deceased was riding 1 quietly along when he gave a tug at thd rein, and horse and rider fell over.' * A verdict of accidental' ' death 'was efturned.

A BOY DROWNED.

Napier, March 24

Late this afternoon a boy, aged, four, the son of T. Lines, fell into the Tutaekuri river and was drowned. The lacl was playing on the bank with his brother, and through a false move, he fell into tile stream, which was running almost bank high.

FATAL Wharf ACCIDENT.

Auckland, March 24.

Roy Howarth, aged 2(5. a married man with' two children, while assisting in the discharge of cargo from the Rimutaka, was crushed by a sling “of iron, which fractured his left leg below the knee. He died this afternoon.