ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 88, 20 March 1916, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

TWO DEATHS BY DROWNING. FOUND DEAD ON THE ROAD. Per Press Association. Gisborne, March 20. Tokomaru Bay reports two deaths from' drowning. A Maori girl aged If was attempting to cross a swollen creek, when she became entangled in the driftwood and was drowned. Charles Bramewell, bookkeeper tt Tokomaru Bay for the Farmers' Cooperative Company, aged H2, unmarried was'swept out to sea while bathing. Waipiro Bay reports that Robert Armstrong, an elderly man, was found dead on the roadside. At the inquest a verdict of death from natural causes. accelerated by exposure, was returned. A HAMILTON MYSTERY. Hamilton, March 20. Hansen, the young man who disappeared mysteriously from the Thames a fortnight ago, and of whom nothing has since been heard, has h sister resident at Frankton. She states that lip. .was of a very quiet disposition, being strictly temperate, and also states I that about five years ago a relative 'named Hansen disappeared in exactly I the same way at Whangarei. He I rode info town one evening and placed his horse, in the stable, and after on leaving was never heard of or seen again. SUDDEN DEATH AT NEW PLYI MOUTH. ! Frank McKoown, 30 years of age, a plumber, residing in New Plymouth, died suddenly in the public hospital last night (reports the News). He was arrested by the police yesterday morning for helpless drunkenness, and j on removal to the lock-up he was at-, tended by Dr. Wade. Last night the, deceased became, very ill, and Dr. Wade, who was summoned, ordered McKeov.n's removal to the hospital, where he died shortly after admission.