ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
A MAX DROWNED. By Telegraph,—lvegg Association. Wellington, Last Night. •lames Ulcrstreet, aged 52 years, wag drowned ,„ the harbor Ibii afternoon. Ho was keeper of the hulk K o lgran, which had just been towed out to her moorings by the tug Terawhiti. Waterstreet, and another man named Ureen.. wer, imng the lines to the mooring buoy, when tho rope broke, and botlt men were knocked into tho water. (Jreen caugiit a line thrown from the tug and was nan led aboard, but Waterstreet was never seen again. WAGON-DRIVKR KILLED. n ™ Taihape, Last Night. At Taoroa, on Thursday, a mannamed Tom Carlton was driving a wool wagon, when the leaders got out of hand. The wagon capsized over a bank rolling over tile driver, who, however' •was partly protected by falling into * depression in the ground. He sustain jd a fractured skull, and died this morning. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was recorded. ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. Dunedin, Last Night A fisherman, named Lowi3, found th* body of a man floating inside the harbor to-day, and conveyed it to Port Chalmers, where it was identified as that of David Timlin, who was drowned, in company with Thomas Shanks, near the Kaik on December 29. An inquest was held, and the coroner returned a verdict that deceased was accidentally drowned through the upsetting of a dinghy. A CHILD POISONED. Auckland, Last Night. The death, by poisoning, of a two-year-old child named John Samuel Ritchie, was enquired into by tho coroner this morning. Catherine Ritchie, the i mother of the deceased, stated that at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday one of her children said that he had been playing with a bottle, and had swallowed some of its contents. In recording a verdict of accidental death; the coroner referred in severe terms to the carelessness of people in leaving bottles, etc., which had contained, dangerous compositions, lying about in places where they might be reached by children. FATAL FALL FROM A TRAM. Auckland, Last Night. An elderly man, whose Identity is at present unknown, died at the hospital ! early this morning from the effects of 1 a fall from a tramear last evening.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1914, Page 4
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