ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2085, 21 May 1907, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Press Association. DARGAVILLE, yesterday. Matthew Robinson, an elderly

man, fell overfioard from the steamer Waiwera between here and Graham’s ferry at 9 o’clock on Saturday night, and was drowned. His body has not yet been recovered. AUCKLAND, yesterday. The five-year-old son -of George Horwood has been drowned in the river at Huntly. He was playing with anothen boy, John I\elly, in a canoe, which capsized. Both boys •wer thrown into the river. Kelly got ashore, and did not give an alarm until he reached home. The river was dragged and the body found, hfe being extinct. BLENHEIM, yesterday. An organised public search for the missing man William Preston, who left his home in Blenheim. alone with a bicycle and gun to go to Itiverlarids duck shooting resulted yesterday in the discovery of the bicycle, since identified as Preston’s, near the Opawa river, some distance above the lagoon. Dragging operations are taking place to-day in an adjacent creek and holes. INVERCARGILL, yesterday. An inquest was 'held to-day on tinbody of John Francis Day, farmer, of Waitaka, whose body was found outside, the rear of an Invercargill boarding house on Sunday moratng. The evidence showed that deceased had been suffering from melancholiaand was ordered by his medical adviser to go for a change.,/He was m a comfortable financial position. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died from a wound self-inflicted while suffering from melancholia. .He leaves a wife and seven children.,.