ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 39, 26 May 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FOUND DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 25. A body found in the harbor yesterday /lias been identified as that of a man- ■named Tremain, a former resident of Wellington. He was recently seen here looking for work. He was subjects to fits of depression. FARMER FATALLY THROWN. Taihape, May 25. An old settler and stationholder at Pukekahu, named John Joseph Boyd, was found dead on the road three miles from his home, between 1) and 10 o'clock last night. His horse had slipped on a sheep siding ami evidently brought up on the verge of the perpendicular cutting of a creek with a drop of twelve feet. Boyd must have been «hot off into the creek, his head striking on a stone. His wife, who rs a Maori, resides at ■Napier, and he has a brother in Gisborne, 'but no family. A MAORI BUSHMAN INJURED. Wairoa. May 25. A Maori at Morere yesterday, while jacking logs, sustained severe "abdominal injuries', and is in a critical state. DEATH UNDER CHLOROFORM. Timarn, Last Night. Thomas Gladwin, aged sixty-three years, died under chloroform at Timaru Hospital to-night, whilst undcrgoino an operation for the removal of cancel- in the throat.