ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 3 September 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

KX-KOOriiAJXER'S MATH. Ly Telegraph.—Press Association. DuncdMi., Wednesday. The inquest on William Holt-, who died at Portobello yesterday, revealed the fact that he 'had heart disease of long stsmdinp. A verdict of death from heart failure was returned; deceased was 48 years of age, and at one time was a prominent Vincent Comity footballer.

DEATH UNDER OHUUiOFOHM.

Hastings, Last Night. At tlie inquest held 1 on the death c!' Mrs. Florence Sarah Oollint*. who died yesterday at a private hospital under chloroform, whilst undergoing an operation', a verdict was Tetunied that death was due to embolism, the existence of whieli could not have been detected by the mtedienl men. J' UV mi U'R ,POI.\TFATAL-IT V.

•Jiiwroargill, Uist Night. ' Further information regarding! the I'uysegnr ]>oint boating fatality is to hand, which goes to siiow that all went well until the boat entered tins narrow -passage leading to the landing on the return journey .when the boat cap«jy,e(l. At 3 p.m on Monday the body »f Smith .was found washed tip und'o.rneam the wharf. Mirs. Louden's body was interred at Puysegiir Point on Sunday. The opinion expressed by the constable in hte> report wtie that thj occiwrence wa!s purely accidental, and no blame was attachable to anyone. Owing to the inaccessibility of the place, no inquest was 'held. ,

BURNED TO DEATH.

Blenhdm, Last Night.

üßHzabcth; Black, a Maori woman married to a European, was found! on the afc Wairau pa in the whare with her face &™l breasts aJmofrt. burnt to a cinder. Evidently she ihadi faJlcn in a fit into the flr& She was take® to tie hospital, where she died to-day.