ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 68, 28 March 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

HUMAN REMAINS WASHED UP

(Per Press Association,) Invercargill, March 27. A human skeleton was found on the Riverton beach yesterday. It is thought that the remains are those of an old age pensioner who mysteriously disappeared a few weeks ago.

TROUBLE WITH A TAXICAB

Palmerston North, March 27

A party of three motorists in a Palmerston taxicab were travelling in the Sandon district this evening, when a tyre burst and the car was overturned. One of the occupants, Mr Tomlinson, of Hastings, had his wrist broken, and Mr Baker, a hotelkeeper, of Palmerston, was badly shaken; but no one was seriously hurt. They were conveyed to Feilding by a passing motorist. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Wellington, March 27. George E. Rigg, a well-known excivil servant, cut his throat in a boardinghouse and was removed to the hospital in a precarious condition. GIRL’S DETERMINED SUICIDE. A Maori girl named Paerehurangi Ransfield, and employed as housekeper for the Rev Taimona Hapimana, committed suicide in a most determined manner at the latter’s residence on Wednesday last (says the Auckland Star.) The girl had been out on the previous night with a young man to whom some objection was taken by Hapimana, who scolded her the next morning. While the latter was away on a visit to Opotiki, the Maori girl went into a back room, and took a double-barrelled shot-gun,which she loaded with a single cartridge. The girl apparently sat on a bed and pulled the trigger with her foot, shooting herself in the breast. Hapimana, on his return from Opotiki, found the body leaning on the bed, and he at once communicated with the police. At the inquest, which was held on t h esaeamdyobugrhtshion faoik—? the same day, a verdict was brought in that deceased “met her death by- a gunshot wound, self-inflicted while of unsound mind.”