A Sad Record of Fatalities.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 154, 28 December 1897, Page 2

A Sad Record of Fatalities.

o Telegraph. Press Association. Coi>yright Auckland, December 24. At the inquest on the body of Mrs F Battley, killed by a train at the Kings land crossing, a verdict of accidental death was roturnsd, with a rider that no blamo was attachable to anyone. December 26. A party of lads went to Motutapu yes- ' terday rabbit shooting. One of them, Arthur James Harrisou, aged 15, bought a gun at a pawnbroker's for l'6s. He was not accustomed to firearms, OFer loaded the gun aud it burst, the charge ontering his side. He died shortly afterwards. Deceased was a son of Tobias Harrison, shoemaker, of Parnoll. Dunkmn, December 24. Mr Robert Humo, a commercial trav-* eller for McLeod Bros., Limited, and one of the oldest on the road, died aud denly thitt morniug. CHitiSTciiURCH, Dec. 26. This inorninc at G'6o o'clock a youth named Comerford, a clerk at Messrs Whitcombo and Tomb's the son of the master of tho Mauugamunu native school, was drowned at Su inner while bathing. He dived from a boat and did not come up again. News has been received from Gebbie Valley that two young men named George Manson aud Charles Pym were out shooting yesterday, when the latter shot at a rabbit, but the charge struck Mansion on tho head and blew half of his skull off. llokitika, Dec. 26. An elderly man named Chas Bonckha, formerly a miner, was found dead, having hanged himself iv a room in his cottage in Salo street. Sydney, December 24. Two little girls named Crouch and a nur.se girl nam^d Wilson have been drowned in a watcrliole at Orange. It is supposed that one child fell in, and the others perished in attempting to rescue her.