ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2389, 19 February 1915, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUDDEN DEATH. IBjr Tdegmph.—Prem Association.) Blenheim, February 18. ! A young maiij Henry Henderson,, a pamter, 32 t years'of age, died suddenly of heart failure on tho Wairau bar;Jast night, from'the effects of a recent seri-. ous illness... . ' LABOURER. COMMITS SUICIDE. CisbDrne, February 18. Thomas Wallace, a labourer, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Deceased's bad been peculiar during the evening. He had been suffering from the effects of drink. MISSING PERSONS. Westport, February 18. Mrs. Clayworth disappeared in her night attire on Monday night from her home at To Kuha, near Westport; ]t is .feared she got into the Buller River. She had been ill. ~ ' There is no tidings of the old man Solomon Blair, who has been missing for three weeks. • : ■' A PECULIAR ACCIDENT. ; ' Ashburton, February 18. William Ferguson, 26 years of age, was engaged, (as a member of a gang) in felling trees this morning, when a cable attached! to the top of a tree and engine slipjjec! from the wheel of the latter, and just as the wire was becoming. taut flew back, and 'hit him in the face,; knocking , him down, and rendering him unconscious.. At the hospital he was found to bo suffering from concussion of the brain. . ' DROWNING FATALITY. James M'Gregor, an attendant at the I'onrna Mental Hospital, was drowned at Titahi Bay yesterday afternoon, whist bathing with several companions. Tho body has- been recovered, and taken to the hospital at Porirua. . i