ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 199, 8 September 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

i Palmehston ISorth, Sep- emW 7. j W. Loveday, draper and flaxmiller at Foxton, sVio*; himself in the left side with a revolver, some time between Saturday night and Sunday. H» haves a wife and three children, It is understood that financial trouble was tbe ojuso of the act. Wbstpokt, September 7. Mi s James Suihted, wif« of the flh»i-man of the Westport Harbour Bsard, and a talented writer of prose and verse, died to d*y. | Auckland, September 7. i During the voyage of the Taviuoi from Auckland to Itaratongion Augusi 15th a passenger named Edward Walton was misted. It was sup Dosed that he jumpod overboard. It was blowing a galo at the time, Wulton was a native c>f Middles**, England, 1 and was reported to be very wealthy.: He became possessed with a croze that! attempt s wore being made to poison him.! Henry Hawkinp, foreman machinist] a 1; Oleaveand Oo.'s, printer?, was found dead outside his machine room at 8 o'clock this morning. He had app«r«itly broken a blood vessel and was lying on his fjee in a pwl of blood. IsvEKCAnQiLL, September 7. ! William Nicholson, employed at the Waipapi lighthouse, was received into the hospital suffering from bulleti wounds in the stomach and head, self] kfiicted with a revolver. His condi-l tion is critical. t SiD.vEy, September 7. j Alfred Bullo.k, lormmiy a rssident, of Ohristcburch, who was suffering| from consumption, shot iiinuull' with a i r>~>v()\-n'V n.ft Oftinpdalfl, fcnar <>rmj(?»i.| A vmv\i-.k of i(i«n!!jty ma returned.