ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3564, 26 September 1916, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.

(Per Praas Association)

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 26. A boy named David Sturrock, 9 years ol" age, ■"•was drowned in the Avon yesterday afternoon. Together with othor bays ho was playing on the banks of the lower reaches of the river at South New Brighton, and jumping in and out of :i. boat near by. So tar tho body )ia>i not, been recovered. An inquest- on the b«Jy of Judith Home, who died suddonly in a tearoom on Saturdnv was held, yesterday by the Coroner, Mr H. W. Bishop, and a verdict of death from pulmonary hemorrhage was returned. Oliver Ewiritfs, r&'iiding m Antigua Street, \vm -. tlw victim of an explosion Yesterday,; by which he received a wound in the arra. He" was experimentine with a-.mtxtnro of acetylene, and Icoi-oweno when.it exploded.-,Fortuniitely the ivound was. only slight. / DUNKDIiSi, Sept. 9m. A farm labourer, named W. F. Johnstono, employed by Mr P. Sim at Crookston. committod suicide by hangin" himself with a. piece oi Icncmg wire in an nnweupiod hut. which lie sot on fire bofnre. fca.lcinß hifi-hio. When Mr Sim went, \o investiK»i«, the walls v.-ero falling in, smhl Johnston's body w-s badly btirne-'l. Apparently .Johnstone, who had bwn in the district only a tow months, had previously been, an inmate, of a -mental hospital. :" '■.