ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2513, 28 May 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FATAL FALL OVER A CLIFF.

[Per Press Association.]

ASHBURTON, May 27. Hugh Urquhart, s. single man, aged 20, was killed by falling o*ver a! cliff while rabbit poisoning at Mesopotamia station yesterday afternoon. The deceased’s parents reside close to Geraldine. About three- years ago_ a man named Gilhnan was killed in tne same manner in the same locality, and the country is known to be very rough and dangerous. DEATH IN A CAB. CHRISTCHURCH, May 27. An inquest was held this afternoon touching the death of Agntv; Morton Brown, who died suddenly last night while being driven in a cab from the railway station to her residence. The Coroner returned a verdict that death was due to disease of the arteries of the brain. THE BODY OF A MISSING MAN FOUND. NAPIER, May 27. The police have received information that tlie body of Robert Mclntyre, a shepherd employed on Air. G. Ormoiid’s station at Mahia, who was reported missing n fortnight ago. has been found in a creek. INQUEST AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, May 27. The inquestl on the body of Lucy Kingston, aged 20 years, who died at tlie hospital recently, was concluded today. The only witness called was Mrs. Fowler, carrying on business in the Arcade. She said she did not know a woman nami-d Lney Kingston, and did not remember a young woman calling at her shop on April 23rd. Deceased was not supplied with medicine by witness. The Coroner returned a verdict to the effect that death was caused by purulent peritonitis and taxaemia, resulting from septic infection in connection with a miscarriage. DROWNING AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, May 27. A sailor named Thomas Thompson reported to the police that he was in a small yacht in the harbor on Tuesday night when a squall struck the yacht. His companion. Walter Eggerton, also a sailor, fell overboard. Thompson states he got into the dingy and reached land. He neither saw nor heard anything of Eggerton.