ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 324, 16 January 1909, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

1 AS OLD MAN'S DEATH. Keefton, Last .Night. 1 Yesterday an elderly man named C. U. Anderson suddenly Uieu ai MackHvater. To-day it Mia* found that lie 'had .1180 ill his possession. \\ lien dying 'lie turned to his Jiuite a.id told linn lie 'vuiild have all the money, tie Had nj 'relatives. Mo further i/ariicuiars are I uvn liable.

SUDDEN DEATH. Christehurch, Friday. A man named Banks, a took at :i grass seed camp uL Little liivcr, died suddenly yesterday moiumg. jJe had undergone an operation for appendicitis. A post mortem examination showed a stoppage in the region all'ected.

FATAL TitAi' ACCIDENT. Blenheim, Friday. A married woman named Miller and her daughter were driving near llavclnck yesterday wh?u the horse became unmanageable, smashed Hie trap, and Ihrew both ladies oul. Miss Miller was lmluirt, but lr.'i- mother had her skull fractured and died in the evening.

WOMAN' CONVICT LOST 0\ KR MOAIID.

Auckland. Friday. A yoiM;4 woman uauu'd .Mary Donovan.'com'ctcd at Auckland o'f living an rogue and si'iil In tile Magdalene lloiuc. C'lirist.dmr<!i. disappi'iiieil wliil-l en route. A telegram received l,v Inspector Culleii states that she has licit readied li:-r destination, and that il was surmised tli-.t 1 she was 10, l overboard on Die passage from Wi'llinu'tini l.i l.vttcltnn. rliristclmrch. laisl Xight. l''roiu impiivies made on hoard eoneerainu the Inst woman, tlie police at l.ylti'ltim iix-ciiiiiiicd that one of the' foiccaliin stewards saw lier walking iilinul, the iln-k on Friday night shortly hefore midnight, when the steamer was lietwei'ii Wellington and Lyttelton. Nome nf her wearing apparel was found mi lionril. and is now in the eustodv of the police, who incline to the li'olief that the wiimaii cnniniitled suicide hy jumping overlionnl earlv on Saturday morning. Further enci'.iiries are being made, but it seems hardlv probable anr other solution of the inysferious disappearance will he forthcoming.