ACCIDENT AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 224, 16 November 1900, Page 2

ACCIDENT AND FATALITIES.

IFBB PBBSg ABBOOUTION.J OaitisTOnuiion, November 14. A girl named Ethel Foster, aged five yeare,"died in the hospital to-day from burns sustained through bar clothes catching fire. Auckland, November 14. At the inquest concerning the deuth of Mrs. RobicßOD, of Ponsonby, who died as the result of injuries sustained at a fire in her house on November Ist, evidence was given of the great difficulty ia getting a medical man, several having declined for various reasons to come. The Coroner adversely commented ok the conduct of the doctors, and the jury returned the following verdict" That Mrs. Rebinson died of shock received by reason of burns caused by herself while; temporarily insane, and the jury are of opinion that the conduct of the medical practitioners who were called on and declined to go was highly unsatisfactory." Auckland, November 15. A man named Daniel Tapley Moverley, aged 47, a waiter, went to an hetel to buy a pint of beer, and was served by the wife of the licensee, who noticed lis had his hands to his head and appeared very unwell. She went to his assistance, and then sent for a doctor, but Moverley expired before the medioal man arrived, i'he cause of death is believed tn have been heart disease.