ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 209, 30 September 1903, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association, | Woodville, September 29. A young boy named Anderson, of : Pinfold-road, was drowned in a small creek close to his home. Auckland, f-Vp'-itiber ?9, | Matilda Clark, Bg>-d G2, a n s >1 nt of j Ooromandel, swallowed tw 1 ti>e teeth I in a fit of coughing a fortnight ago. She died at the Auckland Hospital ( 3 after an operation, when the teeth were E removed. Timaru, September 29. Thomas Anrs Walker, blacksmith, p aged 63, was found drowned in the harbour this morning. At the inqueßt on the body of j Thomas Amos Walker, aged 63, found j drowned in the harbour this morning, and last seen in town at ten last nigh 1- , k there was no evidence to show how be . got into the water, and the verdict was " found drowned." | Christchukch, September 29. } The adjourned iuquast ou Williim ' i Twomey, who died at the hospital on J September 24>b, was held to-day. The | evidence showed that Twotney fell j.■ from Rainbow in the Hunt Cup at the i Grand National meeting, but sub?e- ---" I qut-ntly rode in races and did ordinary ' j ;ckey work. He complained of sore'ness in tha neck. The verdict ! death was due to meningitis, probably by injuries accidentally raon August 13th, j j Gisborne, Ssptember 29. j At Tologa Bay (o-duy Tho?. G'over, aged 18, was carting firewood with a (three-horse team along one of the side streets when it caps : z d into the main drain, burying the driver under the loai. He was quite dead when found, j The scene c.f the accident presented a shocking sight, as all three ■hows lay side by side on their backs in the drain, 3 tha ehafter being killed, but the leaders 3 j were taken out alivo. The placa where [the accident occurred is a veritable "Strap, and a few shillings would have. 1 ! put it in repair. >1