CCIDENTS AND FATALITIES'

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 184, 30 April 1919, Page 8

CCIDENTS AND FATALITIES'

BUS&MAN CUTS HIS THROAT. '/ By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, April 29.; A liusbman named John O'Neill, aged ■ 33, cut -his throat in the lavatory of the Metropolitan Hotel this afternoon. Hoi obtained a loan of £1 from the licensee, and after having a sarsaparilla and lemonade said lie was going to his room to take medicine. A few minutes later 110 was found in tho lavatory with his throat out from ear to/ear. A brother of tho deceased was also staying at the 1 hotel. WELLINGTON BOY ACCIDENTALLY . SHOT. By Teletrraph—l*res» Association. Auckland, April 29. Erio Ferguson, a son of Mr. Alexander Ferguson, of Wellington, accidentally shot himself while out rabbit shooting yesterday at Clevedon. Evidently the gun was discharged as he was getting through a fence. A verdict of accidental death was returned, tho coroner drawing attention to tli enuuiWous deaths caused of late through the careless carrying of guns TWO LADS THROWN FROM A BUS. By Telegraph—Press Association, i Hastings. April 29. A Havclock bus, while passing another vehicle, rau on loose shingle and 6l;iddcd into the water channel. Tw<s lads named Lankousky and Fryer weTo thrown'-out. The former suffered a bad ■> .face wound, and tho latter, it is feared, was injured internally. Both are inhospital.