ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 7, 19 April 1901, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

PER FRKSS ASSOCIATION. Wellinoton, April .Shertly after Saintsbuiy left SydneyP tho chief steward noticed that he was in indifferent iicullli. In consequence of this and of the statements by both Mi. »nd Sirs. Sainsbury as to Sainabury's condition, two stewards war* detailed to attmd t) him, relieving e<ch other every mx houis. Sainsbury w»s re»tJesa and unsettled, being depressed ot the etato of his health, and be feared it was hopeless to expeot complete recovery On Mouday last there was nothing to show that his illness was mora acute, and when last teen early on Tuesday morning he appeared to be sleeping soucdly in the cabin which was specially sec aside for him, The steward attending him micged his patient about 5.30 on Tuesday moraine, and wported the matter te the officers. The captain put the ship abeut and soarchtd for two hours, bub no traee was found of the miFsibg maa, The position of the vessel was 38.39deg. S., 167.12deg. E. Mrs. Ba''ns'oury, who is greatly distressed, exonerat 8 the stewards from blatn*.

Napibb, April 18. Edwaad Weaver, victim ei the rail-way-crossing accident, died at the hospital.

A man named John Bowling accidentally walked over the cattle wharf at the Spit this evening and w«b nearly drowred, but fortunately a bystander witnessed the occurrence and rescued him.

AtrcKLAKB, April 18. Joseph Strong, a farmer at Papakura, con.mittfd suicide on bis firm on Tuesday by blowing his bead off with a gun. He had been peculiir of late.