ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1317, 21 December 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SHOOTING AFFAIR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Pahiatua, December 20. William Griffin, aged IG, shot himself in the abdomen. He had been in ill-health and unable to eat or sleep. His condition is serious. GCMDIGGER'S DEATH. Whangarei, December 20. Tlio police have received information that. 'William Bishop, gumdjgger, was found dead on .Monday on the pumfield, Kirikiri, Bay of Islands: Deceased had been ill, and bad wandered from hishut. It is presumed he died from exposure. CI'CLIST KILLED. Auckland, December 20. Ernest Auger, aged 31 years, was cycling down the Reniuera Ifoad, when the front wheel of his bicycle became detached. Auger fell heavily, and sustained severe injuries to his head, and one of his jaws. He was removed to the hospital iu an unconscious state, and died there. FATAL STREET SMASH. Auckland, December 20. John Alexander M'Connell was riding in n taxi driven by a man named'l B:ity, along the Beach Road, when tho car met two horses which the driver states were unattended. To avoid colliding with them he turned tii2 ear sharply, with the result that it. struck a tramway pole. M'Connell jumped or was thrown out of the car. He was conveyed to the hospital in an unconscious condition, and 'died there two hours later. M'Connell was aged 3G rears,, and had been employed as an n'ecomitant. Ho leaves a wife and family of voung children. SUDDEN DEATH. ' Christchurch, December 20. A man named James Cotton,, aged about 45, died suddenly n't Dunsandel on Tuesday. He came i'rom Christchurch that morning by train with others. He got off, and went to sleep on a coal pin tfdrra. An hour later he was found to be dead. An inquest was hold, the verdict being that, death was. duo to heart trouble, accentuated by alcoholic poisoning.