ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 137, 11 June 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PER FKBSB ABSOCIATIOT. IiOHDOH, JuDS 9, By a boiler explosion on ths eralser Gool Hop, an engineer and six of tin crew were seriously injured. On ber re'urn from S;uth Afrioa, wheaa ehi took Mr Ohambarlain to Englmd, H.M.B Good Hop* andean average of twelve and a half knots in hour. According to Admiral y idaas, this is a praiseworthy speed ; hut information from tbe vessel itself showf tint she was not kept going on this pio* by orders, but simply because sho could not do more. The leakage from her boilers was so greit that the evaporators were unable to keep up tha supply; yet these are capable of produring 120 ton', of fresh" water every 24 hours, In eight hours, however, tbe Good Hope used 80 tons. Tha consequence was that she had to taka in very heavy supplies of ft rah water in her tatiks. DmntDW, Jon* 10. George Bhikie, of Waitabuna, 24 years of ago, was accidentally killed whilst ong»gcd in sharpening lb* knivea of a ch; IT cutter. Accklasd, Jane 10.' A tragio suioido occurred thia afternoon at a boarding house in Lower Hobson-street-, a miner named Gutteridge shooting himself with a sixchambered revolver. When discovered in a bedroom he was lying dead on tha bed witL a bullet wound in tha right temple and a Mx-ohambared revolver laying on the floor. Deceased was peculiar in his mtoner at times. Tha police found a letter on the body, addressed to Mr. John Pr«s% stating ha) waa tired of life and asking Prestto forward bis money and some things in a portmanteau to deceased's sister, Mil I nomas Gave of Tooting, Burrey.