ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 335, 10 March 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A CHINAMAN'S SUICIDE. By Telegraph. —Press Associativa. Wellington, Last Night. Nang Zoo. aged 48 years, a Chinese market gardener from Nelson, hung himself this morning from, a tree at vaq j back of premises at No. 24 Haining! street. He had been staying with Joe I Queen, who last saw him alive at 111 o'clock on Tuesday night, when Nang ■ Zoo bade him good-night. He did not [ hear deceased get np during the night, j They were sleeping hi the same room. | and on going into his back yard at 5.30 this morning. Qucn saw Nang roo suspended by a rope from a tree four! feet from the ground. He severed tne ' rope, but life was extinct. Nang Zoo | had ben in ill-health for some time. ■ He came over from Nelson to bid j good-bye to one of his countrymen who | was leaving for China. He had been i twelve years in New Zealand. In Nang j Zoo's pockets were found pawn tickets. for £1 (for his watch) and three shil-1 linos and ninepence, and a return ticket > to Nelson. Mr Haseklen, S.M., held an! inquest, a verdict of suicide by Bis , own hand being returned. " , VISITOR'S SUDDEN DEATH. * Wellington, Last Night. ( A man named H. Carstens, aged 12, | of Melbourne, who arrived here by the [ Ulimaroa to-day on a visit to his' daugh-. tev, iliod'of heart failure four hours alter j arrival. AN INFANT'S DEATH. I Hamilton, March fl. I The dead body of a newly-born caild was found in a clump of fern at Waotu. It is supposed to be that of a servant girl, whose child was born on Friday; in a paddock of an adjoining farm,, where the girl worked. A post mortem examination proved that the child' lived. There are no apparent marks of) violence. An inquest is being held. | A SERIOUS JOKE. j Wanganui, March 9. A serious caste of "ragging" is veported to have occurred at the railway engine sheds at 3.30 on Tuesday morn-. ing. An engine cleanr named Anna-1 bell, a lad about 20, either went to sleep at work or during a spell and was cov-, cred with "waste" soaked in which was afterards set alight. It is assumed the act as intended for a joke,! but there are serious eonsequencs. An- j nabell being badly burned about the face, hands and upper portion of the bodv. He was brought to the Wanganui ; Hospital, where his injuries have been' attended to. It is understood an inquiry was held by the departmental of-1 fleers at Taihape. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, j Christchurch, March 9. ! A middle aged man named John Who-1 lan. when gra~s-seeding in the Penin-! suli. disappeared in January, and has I not since been seen. Lately a coat and j w-intcoat belonging to him was found An the banks of n creek 171 Okain's Bay. ( Police Investigation revealed the fact; tlx- fart miolJin'R behaviour was so pe- j miliar that he had to be restrained. He ! (eft e-imp raying, be intended to go to. Lvttclton. biit later in the same day turned up at -11101,1101' camp, apparent! ,- hi a state of extreme exhaustion. When ' last seen he was staggering along the ton of high cliffs above the sea. and the belief is entertained tint .Whelan fell into the sea. T-Tp is .-'aid to have Tola-1 tions in Tasmania. j