Accidents and Deaths.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 41, 18 February 1904, Page 3

Accidents and Deaths.

(Per Press Association.) CHRUTCHURCH, Fob. 17. A man named Wm. ilonis died suddenly on the Carnal Reserve this inonii'jig. At the hiijuest on tte child John Bdward Mjk >.li ( who divd at the hospital, the medieal evidence disclosed that death wa.s due to waait of proper food ami attention on the part of its lelativos. The jury return ,1 a verdict that the child died from want of proper attention on the pait of those who should have attended to him-namely, tin- fatter, grandfather, arjd grandmother. AIASTKRTON, Feb. 17. li. McLean, wlro was killed at the show yesterday, was agvd 2.'!, and was a resident of Mjuitiii.'borough. He was riding the horse Stockman, when it crashied into a gorse fence a«d turned a complete somersault. Both rider and horse bad their necks broken, GISBORNE, Feb. 17. The decomposed body of a man was found to-day lying in a ditch near town. It has .siiuo been identified as that of Cornelius Alanley, an itinerant tinsmith, who is supposed to have fallen in the ditch while drunk, and suflocated. WANGANUI, Feb. 17. A man named William Robertson, remanded to the Wu.'iganui gaol from Palinorstu.i North for medical treatment, died in gaol tUs morning. At the inftuest to-day a veixlict of death from acute kidney disease, accelerated by excessive use of alcohol, was returned. The jury aOdvd a rkitr that such a case should have been medically treated in -Palmerston N.