ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3195, 20 September 1917, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

. A collision occurred yesterday morning at the cornor of Lambton Quay and f Bowen Street between a bicycle which ( was being ridden by Thomas Hunt, a ( wharf labourer, residing on the Hutt j Road, Kaiwarra, and a Post Office motor ( lo*rry. Hart wa3 severely injured about , the shoulders, and after receiving attention at the Bowen Street Private Hospi- • tal was removed to the Wellington Hos- ; pital. The bicycle was badly damaged. SUPPOSED SUICIDE. ' ] ' By Telegraph—Press Association. ; ] Auckland, September 19. ; Harry Stewart, aged twenty, a letter- ' carier at the Birkenhead Post Office, was found dead in a paddock this morning, shot through the month. He borrowed a , revolver yesterday afternoon and then • disappeared. He volunteered for active , service recently, but was rejected by the ; Medical- Board, since when he had been ■ depressed. MAN SUPPOSED TO BE DROWNED. Dunedin, September 19. Charles' Hnxbourne. employed on the railway works at Cromwell, has heen missing since Saturday last. His watch was found on the edge of the Clutha . River. It is feared he has been druwnel. VERDICT OF SUICIDE. Auckland, September 19. A verdict of suicide was returned at ] the inquest on "Henry Stewart, a lettercarrier, found dead at Birkenhead.