ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 336, 24 June 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

-MENTAL PATIENT'S SUICIDE. Hy Tel'graph.—Press Association. Nelson, Last Night. A mental hospital patient named George Smith committed suicide this morning by suffocating himself with a blanket * FISHERMAN DROWNED. Wellington, Last Night. A Nelson fisherman named Charles Dahlgren, a recent arrival from Greymouth, went in his oil launch to Astrolabe on Tuesday. The launch was. picked up with a hole in it. Dahlgren is missing, and the worst is feared. The police are searching. FISHING PARTY MISSING. Wellington, Last Night. George Hepple, a storekeeper, and his two sons, aged 15 and 17, started from Petone on a fishing expedition in a small flat-bottomed boat yesterday morning. They were seen off. Somes Island at about five o'clock, but have not since been heard from. Grave fears are entertained for their safety. A FIREWORKS ACCIDENT. . Hawera, Friday. An accident occurred last night during the fireworks display. Caroline Ayers, a thirteen-year-old daughter of a settler, was seriously injured by being hit on the skull with a stick from a rocket, causing a deep wound. She has been operated on for a depressed fracture. Her, condition it. critical. A SUDDEN DEATH. Christchurch. Friday. Kate Devlin, aged 52, died suddenly last night from heart disease. DROWNED IN SIX INCHES OF WATER. Blenheim, Friday. This morning the body of a fisherman named Edward Hepplestone was found in a ditch containing about six inches of water. Deceased was last seen at 10 o'clock last night. It is presumed he was on his way home when he' fell into the ditch. He is a native of England, and it is unknown whether he has relatives in New Zealand.

A MAN MISSING. Wanganui, Friday. The disappearance is reported from the residence of Mr. A. Sutherland (Fordell) of a tutor named J. M. Gibbons, who left a note stating that they had seen the last of him. The police are making investigafions.