ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 259, 25 March 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

DROWNING FATALITY.

By Telegraph— Press Association. ' Auckland, Last Nisrht. 1 hrough the capsizing of a small" boat in the Jiarhor to-day an elderly man, named Charles Watson met his death. -AM the occupants of the boat were rea- \ cued by a launch, hut Watson was unconscious and did not recover. A FARMER'S SUICIDE. _,,. Duiiedin, East Night. ilns morning a man named Gilford, a farmer, living at Dunback, committed suicide by shooting himself. Gilford recently came from Macraes. DROWNING FATALITY. Auckland, Last Night. A mill hand named Harry Bridge was found drowned at Raugirir'i Bridge. It is supposed that he fell from the wharf. , YOUNG MAN'S SUICIDE. Auckland, Last Night. The body of a young man, supposed to be George Baddox, was found lying, on a vacant section to-day with a bullet wound in the man's forehead and a re- i volver at his side, pointing to his having i committed suicide., A BLASTING FATALITY. , . Gisborne, Last Night. ' On Sunday morning an old man named Wm. Fahey, a contractor, was killed. Fahey was engaged in a road contract, ? and found it necessary to put in a .blast ' for stone. He ignited the fuse without any success, and leaving it for half an •' hour approached the scene to investigate. As he approached the blast went off, and several big pieces of stone struck Fahey, the body being fearfully mangled. The unfortunate man succumbed '! to his injuries half an hour later. :