ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 82, 27 September 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

FOUND DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wairoa, Yesterday. A id;i 11 named Joseph Youngman, 50 years of age, u cook, was found drowned in the Wairoa river yesterday afternoon. lie had been missing since Saturday. He is supposed to have a son in the telegraph ollice at Auckland. DROWNED T-\ A CREEK. Auckland, Yesterday. Michael Oreerie, a single mail, aged 03, was found drowned in a creek near Kohnkohu. Ft is supposed he fell into the water through sudden heart failure. THE WELLINGTON FATALITY. Wellington, September 2(3. The body of the woman has been identified as that of Mrs. Maria Donovan, aged 56, wife, of Edward Donovan, who has l>een for many years gardener at the Government Buildings, Lambton Quay. She left home last night, stating that she was going for a walk. SEA CASTS IT ITS DEAD. Christchurch, Last Night. A body, supposed to be that of Captain SlcDmveM, of the schooner Bell Flower, which was wrecked oil' Bank's Peninsula on July 24, was found on Saturday by one of the Kinloch settlers. The body, which was in an advanced state of decomposition and minus the head and one arm, was washed up on the beach in Tumbledown Bay, the sec no of the wreck. It is surmised that the body had been pinned under the wreckage, which was washed into a -small caive, and the continual washing of the sea had released it. Constable Whajtman, of Little Uivcr. went over on Sunday morning, ajid with Mr. J. McQueen, of Kinloch, buried the late captain's body close to the scene of the wreck.