ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 36, 10 February 1903, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FEB PEESS ASSOCIATION. | Palmkrston, February 9. | At an inquest; on an infant named i Roy Shadbolt, who died as the result of drinking sheep dip, the jury brought in a verdict of accidental death, adding j a rider recommending that storekeepers | acd other retailers of poisonous liquids! b8 compelled f o affix poison labels as <"s ■ done by chemists. In the present instance a smsll quantity of dip was purchased from a stor-: kofper, and no indication was given of its poisouom nature. Probably proceedings will be taken by the pil-ce in tbe matter. Oamaru, FubiUMy 9. A yourgman named James Mulligan, a farm laborer, mysteriously disappeared from b : s employment on Thursday morning, taking his rn r, pip j, and tobacco, but leaving his watch and chain a,.d other prop rly b -hind. A search party has been cut scouring the! country for the la-t three dajs, but no trace of the man has been found. It is supposed that he has commit' ed suicide. W aim ate, Febeuary 9. Mrs Mitchell, wife of J. H. Mi'chell, a farmer at Stndholme, was found drowned near her house about one o'clock yfsterdiy. At tha inquest today evidence showed that dec-ased was last teen a 1:. 11 a.m., and about one o'clock her body was found in the pond fully clothed. Her husband was absent at the time, and the body was first s r en by the children arid recovered by tbe employees. The jury returned a verdict that deceased drowned hers If whi,e temporarily insane. Wellington, February 9. John Williams, a carpenter, aged 63 yeacs, w«s found dead to-night at the Princess Hotel,