ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 303, 1 February 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

ATTEMPTED SrrCIBE. j'.v Teiegrapi'. i'less Associalion. .Auckland. January 31. (icorge Aii'kin, a single man. about '4O years of age, residing in Newton Road, cut, hi-,' tliront witli a razor yesterday, indicting serious injury, lit' had lici'ii drinking heavily lately and apparently was sulTcring from delirium tremens. Ho is in a raiher serious condition ami was taken to the hospital. FATA LI A' KNMI'RED. (Jore, Last Night. i At Kelso on Saturday some lads were amu-.ni:: themselves with a revolver firing >ho(s at each other, at close range, \vith Idank cartridges from which the lmllet. had been extracted, substituting clover leaves. One bullet was left ill, and one hoy nmned Alexander McKinuon. son of A. MeK in noil, manager for Wright and Stevenson. received the charge in the hack. An operation lias failed to locate the bullet. MKi;<rrial poisoning. 1 Dnnedin, Last Night. A man named Archibald Brown proprietor of a motor ciigincenti? works in Castle Street, died in the lio-'pital today from the uflects of mercuri;.! imison j ling. When admitted to the hospital defccased had in his possession a headache Wafer, anil in the same pocket was a packet of mercury chloride. The wrapper of the packet was broken, and some of the contents had apparently mixed Nvit.li the headache wafer. Deceased: was admitted to the institution on 22nd inst. MANATA FARMER FOUXD DEAD. Christchureh, Last Night. Frank Allison, 57 years of age, a far" incr at Manaia, Xortli Tsland, was found' 'dead in his bed at the Canterbury lioardinghouse this morning. Deceased ivas 011 a visit to this city, and was last Ween alive by the boarding-house keeper at 10.30 o'clock on Sunday night. He Kvas suffering from chronic asthma and 'was being attended by a doctor, who lias given a certificate regarding the cause of death. * A BOY COMMITS SUICIDE. Auckland, Last Night. A hoy named Alma Oscar French', 'aged 14, committed suicide at Point Chevallier to-day. The body was found 'hanging from a clothes line attached to a willow tree at the back of his father's residence.