TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. I YOUNG WOMAN DROWNED. ; HASTINGS, January 3. Florence Smith, aged 21, unmarried, a resident of Havelock north, was drowned during the progress of a picnic party. At the inquest a verdict of accidental drowning was returned and i the coroner commended the action of I the picnickers especially " Mrs Barley, j for her efforts to save. ! A WIDOWER’S DEATH. TAUMARUNUI, January 3. i Charles Sach, a widower aged forty i two a quarryman at the brick and tile

Coy. committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Deceased lost his wife last October, and was left with four growing children to care for. On Saturday he complained of feeling unwell and his son Tirte found his father in the backyard early on Sunday with the jugular severed. BOY SHOT DEAD. DANNEVIRKE, January 3 The four year son of Alfred Barnes, a sheep farmer of Ormondville, was accidentally shot dead by his elder i rather aged six, on New Year Day. Tinelder bov, who is a cripple was playing in an outhouse when he found a loaded gun. and while playing with it, lhe gnu went off, shooting his brother;