ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 829, 30 May 1910, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

$ TRAP FALLS OVER EMBANKMENT. A SETTLER KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Waihi, May 29. Joint M'Cauley, nn old and respected settlor of Katikati, while returning to Katikati early on Saturday evening, was, with his horse and trap, precipitated oyer an embankment in the Gorge, at a narrow portion caused hy a recent slip. A follow settler who was following behind heard tho crash of tho falling vehicle, hut at tho moment, owing to the darkness, ho was unable to discover tho whereabouts of M'Canlcy. • Later, with assistance, tno body was recovered in tho creek 30 feet below. Deceased was 60 years, of age, and a very early settler of Katikati.

ILL-FORTUNE IN BUSINESS. Thames, May 28. No now facts were revealed at. the inquest on Horace liuddlestono, formerly a sharebrokcr, who s}iot himself through tho heart. Deceased's fall from a good position to one where lie was glad to do labouring work was steady and apparently duo to unlucky investments and mismanagement of his business. He was employed at various homes doing manual labour. Ho was downcast at his altered conditions, and his inability to secure congenial labour, and had referred to his present life as a living death. Deceased was a son of the late Colonel Huddlcstoncj of tho Indian Army, and wa? educated at Eton. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane'was returned.

A tramcar and a motor-car came into collision in Willis Street at 2 o : cIock yesterday afternoon. Tho collision occurred when the motor-ear had just entered Willis Street from Chew's Lane, and tho force of the impact was such as to knock it back .011 to the footpath. The motor-car sustained uome damaifu, but fortunately nobody was hurt.