ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81849, 25 September 1906, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Auckland, September 24. The body of Wi'liam Haigh, who had been missing for a week, was found in the harbour. Deceased had been caretaker of several houses he:e. The evidence showed that at one lime he had been in good business in Liverpool, and Secrotaiy to the Prim rose League, London. Latdy he expressed himself tired of life. The jury returned an open verdict. Nelson, September 24. William Vercoe, a corporation hand injured some weeks ago in a gas expl sion at rhc Symond mni.nal fountain, died in the mental hospital. After admission to the general hospital he went out of his mind, and had been an inmate of the asylum since. Donald Beach, a lad aged 12, fell from a pine tree at Richmond, while gathering cones, and sustained fatal injuries. Wellington, September 24. Wile goat shooting yesterday at the Upper Hutt, a young man named George Ready was accidentally •hot in the groin by a companion. He was taken to the hospital. His condition is serious. Auckland, September 24. A fatal accident occurred on the railway works at Raurimu, on Saturday. A drive was being made through a hill, two parties working from opposite ends. The drive had proceeded almost to the centre, and one of the parties put in a charge of dynamite. The explosion broke through the dividing wall of earth, and Thomas Henry Nicoll, aged 35, who was on the opposite side, was killed. He was a single man.