Inquest at Akaroa. — On Thursday an inquest was held at Bruce's Hotel before Justyn Aylmer, Esq., R.M. and Coroner, on the body of Alfred Edmond Kingston, aged nine years. A jury of fourteen having been sworn, it appeared from the evidence of John Beecher, Mary Lake, Ferdinand Hahn, and Dr J. C. O. Durham, that the deceased had been sent by his parents, who live in Dunedin, to Akaroa for change of air, he was placed under the care of Mr Beecher, with whom he had been for about six weeks. Deceased was in delicate health, and in consequence of his bad symptoms increasing Dr Durham was called in a few days prior to his decease. On Wednesday deceased was standing playing at the door of the hotel. He had a violent fit of coughing, and Hahn seeing him vomiting blood, carried him into the house, where he died in a few minutes. Dr Durham deposed as to having made a post-mortem examination, and finding the lungs of deceased full of abcesses and tubercular deposit. The immediate cause of death was the rupture of a blood vessel. The jury found a verdict in accordance with the evidence. -Star, 22/5/1874.
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