ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 982, 24 November 1910, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

I'HE WANGANUI TRAGEDY; IBy Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, November 23. ' At the inquest on Marion Parker, the seventeen-year-old girl, who died yesterday as the result of swallowing uiaichheads, a verdict was returned that death resulted from phosphorous poisoning, but there was'no evidence as to whether-it had been taken with intent. , ' ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. : (Br Telecrapli.—Press Association.) Westport, November 23. The body of Mr. J. W. Mason, solicitor, who was last seen bathing in the 1 Buller River on Tuesday night, was discovered this afternoon about 4 o'clock. An inquest was held to-night, when a verdict of accidental drowning was returned. It" is' surmised" that deceased was seized with cramp and sank just whero the body, was ultimately found. Ho was a popular voung man, who took an active and leading part in loc-al athletics and dramatic work. FATAL FALL OP COAL. Westport, November 23. A fall of coal in the Mangatira section of the "Westport Coal Company's Millerton mine was responsible' for the death of a miner named Edward Quintan, a single man, at 3 o'clock to-day. DROWNED IN .THE BULLER. Westport, 'November 23. John-Mason, aged 25, a. solicitor, went to 6wim in the -Buller River at 5.30 last evening. . Some boy? observed him swimming up stream, but he has. not since been seen. His clothes were found in the dressing-room this morning. . His mothor resides at Amberley, and he; has oth;r relatives in Christchurch.. , IN ILL-HEALTH AND DESPONDENT. Dunedin, November 23. At 7 o'clock this morning the body of Mr. Ralph Ewing, managing director of the Ewing Phosphate Company, was found on the main road at Clarendon, with the throat cirt. Mr. Ewing had been in. ill-health for some time, and despondent. He was forty-five years of age, single, and lived by himself at the works. AN OLD MAN'S ACT.' Nelson, November 23. An octogenarian' inmate of the Old Men's Home attempted to commit, suicide this afternoon by cutting his throat. He is now in the hospital in a serious condition.