ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 203, 29 June 1903, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

. Per Pri-s* AB.<ooiati <n. WasqiKUl, June 27. I It now transpires ti at the body I -found on the W it-jtara beach a week ago was that; of Mis A. W. F. Halcombe, well knownthroughcut New Zealand, and the daughter cf the late Mr W. Swansjn, of the Hutt, The deceased lady was's9, and her husband predeceased her there yrars. She was a talented and-well-ktown criist. The evidence points to drowning in the Patea River, while en route from Marton to Waitara.to visit a son. Deceased bad been depressed and in illhealth. Oamabu, June 27. A fatal accident occurted to-;'ay, Rober'son, a quarryman aS Wtfcton, wi'h his wifj aud others were driving into town, and wh n d scending tho Severon-street bill the breeching broke and the horse cms down at full speed. The trfp collidi d with the bridge over the Oimaru creek, the occupants being thrown out. Roberts n bad his thigh and several ribs broken ard cever regained consciousness. He difd on the way to the hospital.. Mrs Robertson had a fractured tku'l and s'.rained shoulder, but the others w<re cot seriously hurt. Deceased was aboilt'6o years of age. A man named Harry Crocker, who has been employed at the Urenui Hotel, was found dead in a hotel parlour at Waitsra on Friday evening. It appears that Crocker was in town on Thursday ard Friday, ana left for Urenui on Friday afternoon. He called at Waitira on'the way out, and abou 1 ; seven o'clock was found lying de*d on a sofa.ia a hotel parlour there. An inquest was held. . . o, j