ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 25 November 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association). James Haldane, aged 47. * cooperative miner, of Runanga. tell over a small bank while returning home from his work on Wednesday evening, and was killed instantly, ft appears that Haldane, with his companions. was walking along a bush track in order to avoid a swollen creek, when the unfortunate man lost his footing. Haldane was a widower, and leaves three children, aged from 6 to 14 years. A boy named Charles Sweetman left his home in Greymouth at 1 p m. on Thursday with a. whitebait net, and has not returned. The police searched the river banks, but could not find any trace of him. At the inquest held at Ngarunwahia into the death of Ida Dillon Kemp, aged 17. the daughter of R 4t. Kemp a farmer of Orini. the Coroner <Mr Wyvern Wilson. 8.M.) returned a verdict that the deceased died from the result of taking poison, but the evidence disclosed no reason for doing *O. The deceased died suddenly on Tuesday night. The dead body of Thomas Ouavlc was found under a tree about half a mile from his home at Westown New Plymouth last night with an extensive gunshot wound in the left breast and a gun lying behind him The deceased, who was a wharf labourer and vears old a married man with no children, had been out shooting and was apparently returning home carrying a sack of s*ood. When passing under a tree on the track the gun caught in a branch anti exploded, causing instant death. William James Smith, a labourer nged 58 was found dead at T.uggate. Otago. last night in circumstance:* suggesting that death was du» te pi’ISOII. "