ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 128, 30 May 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' PBB AIUOOIATIOK. Beblik, May 28. A ferry boat ca'p-iz d on the rive J Wan he. Twenty out of forty-five children aboard were drowned.

"WssrroßT, May 29. Edwin Ferguson, agei 21, was found dead this morning at the bo .torn of a cliff at Denniston. He Idft a temperaLce lodge at 9 o'clock list night, and is supposed to have missed his way. He fell 65 feet, and bis neck warn broken.

Eltham, May 29. F. H. Tayler, am mbercf the Fourth New Zeahnd Contingent, died early this morniog from heart disease, aged 33. He leaves a wife and (Md.

Timabu, May 29. An e'derly mm named Duncan Fraser, a stat on ook, dropped dead in the main street this morning from heart diseaee.

Auckland, May 29. It is repoited from Matahura that a [young farmer named David William j Walker was found drowned yestrrJay in a we'l ou his farm. It is supposed ho fell in accidentally. Whilo a concert by the Liedertsfel was in progress last evening aa accident happenel to one of the performers, Mis 3 Maud Aloxander, a wtll known contralto, formoily of Dunedio. She was retiring from the platform, when ehe misstd her footing, and fell from 1 the top to tie bottom of a short fligh' of steps, one kneecap being fractured. It will be thr<;e or f up months before Miss AUxinder will be about again. S mo years ago shs broke the kneecap in her other !• g.

CmusTCUUßcn, M»y 29. An enquiry was held to-day into the death of Mrs Amc-lii Ma'calm, who ditd on May 22. Deceased was a pis on one of tho trams in thtF.-rry Rad collision of April 11. D r Junkins slid that death was due to s;p iand the jury gave a verdict acco;dnigly.

An ii.qujst was held at the morgue I to-day cu Ho: ry D found deal vc-teidiy in tho Wiimaka'iri Riiv, bid six y.ir< .-, 1.0.n tt'O w;i'or. I'no ju.y i«tui'. oj « vordict of doath uum heart disease, I