ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 144, 9 June 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The body of a man named Richard Craig, widower, aged 03, was found on Ocean Beadi this afternoon, having apparently been washed ashore by the receding tide. The body was fully dressed with the exception of coat and hat, which were found on rocks adjacent. It is supposed to be a case of suicide, as deceased left a letter for a fellowlodger stating that by the time the later received the communication deceaseu would be far away. Dunedin, Last Night. An inquest on the body of Patrick Lynch, who was found dead in an open ditch in Macandrcw road on Saturday morning, was held to-day. The evidence •howed that deceased was under the influence of liquor On Friday afternoon and evening. The ditch was tilled with black mud and filth. The medical evidence showed that deceased suffered from pneumonia and chronic alcoholism. The jury returned a verdict that death was due to exhaustion, the result of acute pneumonia and chronic alcoholism, and added a rider protesting most strongly against such a dangerous ditch being allowed to remain in such an important locality and close to the public school.

Thames, Monday. c While working in the slopes of the t Kerikeri mine, near Thames, Thomas I Henderson, miner, was killed and Rob- t ert Cato w'as seriously injured by a fall < of quartz. The men had fired Y shot i previous to crib time. After the meal they returned to the face. Henderson was stooping over the quartz when the fall struck his back, breaking it and crushing his ribs and inllicting other fearful injuries. He was killed instant- i ly. Cato was injured about the head. ] He is now in hospital. 1 Gisbornc, Monday. The Steamer Matatua, bound from i Auckland to Wellington, put in yester- : day for medical assistance for Robert Gal way, sixth engineer. The sufferer had been found unconscious in the 'tween-decks. It. is surmised that he missed his footing and fell from the deck above. Galway is bruised and cut about the head. He is suffering from concussion of the brain. He was removed from the vessel to the local hosprtal. Andrew Walwick, an elderly man, engaged as engineer on the trawler Endon, is missing. He is believed to have fallen overboard. Gisbornc, Last Wight. Galway, the engineer off the Matatua, has recovered consciousness. Ho says he was descending into the bunker to sec to the trimming of the coal, and the rope he had hold of broke. The patient is improving. Auckland, Monday. Four occupants of a cab had a miraculous escape from serious injury in Queen street yesterday afternoon. The party consisted of Mr. (!. H. Barnes, manager of the Meyncll and Gttnn Company, Mrs. Barnes, and Messrs. i Averne and F. Talbot, representative of Kubelik, the violinist. Opposite Durham street the driver, named Smyth, in allowing a tramcar going up the street to pass him, endeavored to cross to the opposite side of the road. Just as the car was broad-side on, another car collided with it and crushed it like an eggshell against one of the heavv tramway poles. The lnotorinan on the car applied the emergency brake. Otherwise it is almost certain that no member of the party would have, escaped injury. As it was Mr. Averne was slightly bruised on one leg. Smyth jumped off the box seat for his life and the horses were quickly out of harm's way. Those inside emerged from the wreckage without loss of time. A veterinary surgeon named Walter Henry Hawthorne' , residing at Onchunga, died yesterday from the effects (it is_ supposed) of a dose of mixture used in the treatment of horses. Deceased was 44 years of age. He leaves a widow and live children. He was one of the veterinary surgeons brought to the Dominion about eight years a<r o Recently he severed his connection with the Department and took up private practice at Onehunga.