ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 248, 13 October 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

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~J'rcss Association. I luiiivrtsou X., Last Nigiiit. Mrs. Laney, wife of one of the urigi- " , sutlers of Fo.vton Small Farm Assanation, Awnkou Mouth, was drowned to-day while fording inc Polianginu iiM-r a how Hie bridge recently wreckid by 'I slip. The horsy returned ><>ine without its Mld broken In-Idle. The body w a s afterwards"found in tin- river, wiiidi Wtt a in high Hood after the rains. .Mrs. Lanc'y leaves a husband and eight ii'iildmi. SnCIDKN. Napier, Last Night. .Tolin Graham, aged ail years, «lio was employed ill llo;i. J. 1). O'inond'a stables at Karamu, near Hastings, was to-day found dead in a lield. His throat was cut with a iiuor. He had ken drinking and was lunt m>c;i nt 11 o'clock on Sunday nigfiif. His mother resides at Ashburton. Dunedin, Last Night. The police received advice this evening that a miner named Hugh Donaldson, agvd about 04 years, residing at Shag Point, had committed suicide. Deceased was n widower, his wife having died 12 months ago. Ho had been in n. delicate state of health since his wife'ti death. j Hlenlhciin. Monday. An old man -named Chnrles John Withey committed suicide this morning by cutting his throat with a pruning knife He was an old ago and Army pensioner.