ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3781, 7 January 1908, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Reefton, January 5

Mrs Alfred Smith, who was widely known for her charitable deeds, was drowned while bathing at Inangahua Junction. • Gore, January 5.

Alexander Noble, aged seventy, was found dead at Mandeville yesterday. Christchurch, January 5.

. The body of a young man named T. G. Bezett was found at New Brighton this morning with the head partly blown off. A doublebarrelled gun with one charge gone was found in the vicinity. Bezett had come from Temuka, and was supposed to be on a holiday. Westport, Yesterday. Mrs Alf. Smith was drowned in the Buller river at Inangahua Junction on Saturday. She was the wife of a well-known cattle dealer, and was bathing with two younger ladies. She walked out in shallow water, but stepped over a ledge of rock into eight feet of water and was drowned. Inglewood, Yesterday. The body of Mrs C. Shaw was found in the Waipukuiti river, close to the homestead, yesterday. She left the house while her husband was milking, and had been suffering from melancholia since her last confinement about a month ago. Dunedin, January 3. Mrs Griffiths, of Wellington, with her child and some friends, was wading in the surf at St Clair yesterday, when a wave washed the child into the breakers. The mother, being unable to reach the child, a young man named Button went to the rescue and got hold of the youngster, but was considerably hampered by the kelp, and another man named Broad had to help him out. Donald C. Ogilvy, 55, staying at the Glasgow restaurant, was accidentally suffocated on Saturday night. Taihape, Yesterday. A man named Arthur Thomas, employed at Ohutu, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.