WELLINGTON FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81907, 19 December 1906, Page 2

WELLINGTON FATALITIES

TIIK I'lliK KX(J!XK VICTIM. IXi.H'KST OPKNKT). .Per .Pres.-; Association. Wellington 3.>eeemljer 18. 1 At the inquest on the body of Mrs Kensington. who was killed by a motor in Wellington on Monday, Win. Cluis. Kensington, the widower, said deceased wis lifty-tliree years of Jle had seen from the window of his ollice in the Government that an accident hud happened. Someone rushed up and told him that he was wanted instantly. lit; went over and saw first his daughter and then his wife lyii:;.( on the ground.. As lie was coming up, an ollicer said to him that it was a wonder twenty people had not been . run over considering the rate at which the motor swung round the corner.

Tlie inquest wan then ■ udjounicil till Thursday. LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY. JURY'S VERDICT. Per Press Association. Wellington, December IS. The Coroner's inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Dora Florence, who was killed by being run by a locomotive last Friday, concluded to-day. The jury found that death was accidental, but added a rider expressing the opinion that no greater speed than four miles an hour should be attained by a, locomotive passing level crossings in any town.