Accidents and Deaths.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 87, 16 April 1904, Page 3

Accidents and Deaths.

(Per Pruss Association). CHRISTCHURCH, April }£. A young woman named Henrietta Wilson, who hod just arrived from Dunedin, died in Lyttelton last night, i She was about 27 years old, and had been attended by a medical man in Dunedin. It is not yet known whether he will give a certificate of death.

Chas. AlphoiißO Sloan, aged nine I years, living at Spreydon, died early this morning, through being kicked by a cow ho was driving yesterday afternoon.

DUNEDIN, April 15. At an inipiest touching the death of Catherine Pearce, found dead thi.s morning, the jury returned a verdict aicelerated by alcoholism. A young that death was due to heart failure, daughter of deceased said her mother

took too much the previous evening. and had to be helped to bed, while j. two married women who were in the house denied this ami suit! slie wus n -jt helped to bed as there was no mjessity for it.

javid McNeil, who was partly run >dver by a dray he was driving at S HilJend station, Clulha, died to-day from the effects of injuries received." A<Uthe forest on John Henry Leitzien who was killed in a Norwegian party's mine atWaltahunalby tho explosion of a i|/ast which deceased was tamping, the evidence went to show that an iron scraper was used for tamping when, as was the case in this instance, the hole was too deep for the handle of

the shovel. Deceased was using a

scraper when the charge went off. The jury returned a verdict that debased was accidentally killed, aw added a rider that proper tamping rods should be supplied in all claims where blasting operations were carried cm .