ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 104, 22 June 1900, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[PBB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.] Feildlnq, June 21. George Younger, an old and respected settler in this district, was killed near Rmgiwahia last evening, when returning from his farm at Kawh&tau. He was driving a trap, one wheel ot which stiu'.k a piece of timber placed across the water-table along a sideling. The vehicle was overturned, pinning Younger to the ground, and when found he was unconscious, and died at i 2 o'clock this morning. Napier, June 21. At the inquest on the body of Norali Chet-r, wife cf Alfred Cheer, of Oliver who was found dead iu a drain neai her homo sweial mornings ago, the medic il t.videiice showed that death was uot due to drowning, but to dißlocatioi uf the neck. The husband was stvorely cross-examined, but nothirg waf elicited to show how the tvoraan cuuu oy her ii juiy, and the jury returns, an open verdict in accjrdacce with th< medical testimony. Joe Vasqu z, a Sparisid, formtily a vendor of hjt pies iu Napier, itiwl mdlenly yesterday. A post mortem hhjweo hat death was due to uaturul causfrf by ettucion of blood on the brain. John fiingland, a well kuuwn busi ueBS man here, has died of cancer. Mrs. Whitson, wife of the station master at Makotuku, in the pi iine of life nod in lobust healtb, died hudlenly. The result of the inquest is but known.