ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 13 May 1914, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

[Per Press .AssociationJ Auckland, May 12. Two little children, Rachel and Richard Coran, wandered away from their home in- Grey Lynn to-day, and got into a flooded creek in which were three or four feet of water. The mother's attention was directed to cries of distress and she rushed to the creek and recovered the body of the boy , but all efforts to restore re- . spiration failed. The water was so muddy that the body of the girl was not found for some time. • Wellington, May 13. An advice received late to-night states that the Kapiti launch party, eonsisting of three men, Thomson, Gasey, and Cook, a week-end fishing party, who had failed to return, have reached Paremata safely. Kaikoura, May 13. Peter Gordon Miles McFarlane was found dead in bed at his residence this morning. The deceased was aged 79 years. He was a military pensioner, and served in the Taranaki Militia, for which he obtained a war medal. He came from Otago, and had charge of the Clarence Bridge aided school for about two years. Auckland, May 13. Francoes Joseph Beniot, an elderly man, a settler at Papakura, shot himself fatally while in a fit of depres- ' sion. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was returned.