ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 304, 28 December 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Wcstport, Friday. A seaman on the scow Haere, known as Long, was drowned in the Karamea river on Christmas Eve. Wellington, Friday. A verdict of suicide while temporarily insane, the result of prolonged ill-health, was returned in the case of an elderly woman named Mrs. Sliarpe, who hanged herself in a i'owlhouse at Petone yesterday. Mastertou, Last Night. A sad drowning accident occurred in the Ruainahanga river this afternoon, in which Hilda Cook, aged IS, daughter ;>t Mr. and Mr*: A. W. ,1. Cook, „f » adestown, Wellington, lost her life 4 boy named Godfrey Clapcott was in the nu>it swimming, having on swimming wings. The wings eame off, and Clapcott went after them. He got out of his depth, and commenced to sink, when Miss Cook, who was bathing with three other children, and who was unable to swim, went after bim to try and iret him out. When she got beyond her depth, she sank and was drowned. Another boy n,,,,!,,,! Hunter got Clapcott out of the water. The body of the girl was recovered about three-quarters of an hour afterwrads. She was on holidays here with friends.

• ~ ~ . Napier, Last Nighl. At the inquest on the body of flic man George Valentine Chatterton Johnston, rhe jury returned the following verdict: "That the deceased met his deatli from an acute attack of Bright'* disease, accelerated by a drinking bout."