ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 14, 3 September 1914, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Pin Pbkm Association.] Hastings, September 2. At the inquest held on the death of Mis Florence Sarah Collins, who died yer.terday at a private hospital 'under chloroform, whilst undergoing an opution,. a verdict was returned tnat death was due to embolism, the existence of which could not havo been detected by the medical men. Invercargill, September 2.

| Further information regarding the Fuyfiegui Point boating fatality is to hand, which goes to show that all 'went well until the boat entered the ■narrow passage leading to the landing o:i the return journey when the boat capsized. At 3 p.m. on Monday the body o Smith was washed up under'ntaMi the wharf. Mrs Louden's body v,as interred at Puysegur Point on Sunday. The opinion expressed by the constable in his report was 'that the occurrence was purely ■accidental and no blame was attachable to anyone, i Owing to the inaccessibility of the place, no inquest was 'held'.

Blenheim, September 2

Elizabeth Black, a Maori woman married to a European, was found on the 30 tl at Wairau pa in the whare with her face and breasts almost burnt to a cinder. Evidently she had fallen in a fit into the tire. She was tc-ken to the hospital, whore she died to-day.