ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 311, 30 December 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

.FATAL FALL OVlilt A CLIFF. | By. Telegraph.—Press Association. j Wellington, Lust, >,'igitl. Constable Mahoiiey, in charge of the Upper Ilult Station, telegraphed to the V\ cllington authorities this afternoon IJuiL Uic dead body of a man named, John .McCarthy had been found on the .Uoonslline road this morning. .McCarthy was last seen on tile evening of the. 'li tli inst. about four utiles distant from tile Upper Unit. The body was brought to ipper llutl, where ail in(jliest was held, tin; verdict being that deceased met his death by falling over a clill'.

IIAKISUIi FATALITY. j Auckland, Tuesday. Charles Peak, a married man, aged 40, was capsized in a boat half a mile oil Ijowick wharf. Peak was drowned, but four children in the same boat were saved. FALLS FKOM TIIAINS. Christchiirch. Tuesday. On arrival of the express from "the South last night a man considerably under the inlluenee of li<)Uoi- fell from one of the lending carriages as 1 li'c train mis Hearing Clirintchurch. Search parties were organised. but no trace of the man could be found. On Saturday night a man fell n(T the express near l!akaia, but was picked up none the worse for his fall.