CATALOGUE OF HORRORS.

Patea Mail, 7 May 1881, Page 3

CATALOGUE OF HORRORS.

A Canto; limy contemporary summarises two days events as follows ; The catalogue of horrors began with the particulars of the tramway accident in Dunedin, backed up by two inquests on suicides in Canterbury ; there was also a suicide at Coromandel, and another at Queenstown. Then we have a man killed at Wellington, two men drowned at Auckland, a boy shot at Ohinemuri, the carpenter of a ship washed overboard, and the disappearance of a Chinaman. After this the mere breaking of a seaman’s leg by falling from the yardarm, and a couple of accidents in or near Christchurch, which close the list, seem very ordinary occurrences indeed. By way of variety, we were enabled to present our readers with a quartette of fires, but this was in addition to another suicide, a sudden death at Ashburton, and a few more incidents, such as the finding of a dead German on a railway lino, the drowning of a little boy, and the death of an unfortunate infant smothered in bed. On the same day came the appalling news respecting the wreck of the Tararna, and the lighter catastrophe of the sinking of the s.s. Taupo when being towed to Auckland.