ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1347, 6 January 1905, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. .. • ; Auckland, last night. The sudden desth is announced at •Howiok of Mr W. H. Guw, latterly traffic manager of tbo railway at Chrisohurch. He had been suffering from paralysis and recently retired from tbo Government ser/vico on a pension. .j/' « Dunedin, last night. The body of George Btopbec.s, a yachts man washed overboard from the Anoyma month, was found near the Hoads

this morning, y T&ihnpe< Üb4 nlgh ,. A man named T. Smith was found in Ins at Turangarere witn his throat

OUt. ’ ' . . ' r;-," _ Wellington, last night. “Mr John Plimmer, who has been styled ' .t, A•‘ Father of Wellington,’' died .his Earning, aged 92. Ho arrived in Wolliog--iSnffi 1841, and has been closely associated Wth tbo growth and development of the •s y ; He bad been, ailing for some ’“r J S Hosking. of the Audit Department « .he Bank of New Zealand, was found Slad in a lavatory of the bank this mornfngf It is supposed that death was due to natural causes. Chrigtchnro ij j i ßa t night.

xxT yy Tas Booth, aged 43 years, a farSefton was “killed . through hie hnltiae. He was carting hoy, and 1 £ the bit S ont of ’the horse’s mouth to * oo ]f the animal. Xho Horse was startled Ihmuch th“blinkers falling off. .Booth was knocked down, and the dray passed ovm bis head. Ho loaves a wifo.aud ms children. : , Timaru, lost night. Edward Aoton, of Pleasant Point, odo nf t d r oldest South Cantfrbcry settlers, i ft3l night after,.a feigering lllnres, d lnd 71 Deceased tabk an active part in sg l. „ iif» for manyyears, and was greatly > ttemed fo° J ny sterling qualities