ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 140, 8 July 1901, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(per PSESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, July 7. The body of a woman, Blanche Walls, was found in the harbeur at Anderson's B«y. She wa* 28 years of age and the widow of a wharf lumper, who was killed on the wbarf some time ago. She obtained an order to go to Benevolent Home on Wtdnesdoy. She was afterwards s-:en under the influenoe of drink. Wellington, July 7. At an inquest on the body of Maggie Yeatts, aged seventeen, an ipen verdici was returned, the jury considering there was nothing to show tiow she got into the water. Christchurcb, July 7. A man named Charles Parkinson, coabhman to Mr. ft, H. Rhodes, MH.R. for Elletmere, disappeared mysteriously on Thursday, and has not been heard of since. On that morning ho left Tai Tapu with Mr. Rhodes' carriage and horses to proceed to Wellington by the Terawera. He came into town and put his horses in a stable, and booked himself and horse* by train and s'eimer. He afterwards went to Mr. Rhodes' town residency and it is said he left there to take the ho* sbs to Lytteltoo, but was never seen afterwards. GeorgVtffltfson, a farmer at Rangior», died suddenly this morning. He, was a married man, 36 years of age, l with four children. He was apparently strong and powerful, at d went out to water his ho?s?s this morning, and returned to the house saying he felt a 1) if he was going to die, and was dead within a few minute?.