ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 257, 28 March 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TAURANGA LAUNCH FATALTTI By Telegraph-Press Association. Tauranga, Last Nigh Two men were drowned in the wi of the launch Victory, named Hs Gray and Joseph Thompson. Grsjr a son of Mr G. Gray, of Rot»T«i i i Thompson was a son of Mr. A-jßj son, of Pakuranga. The was found at the Mount this aftera but Thompson's body is still unrtM ed. The launch left Motiti on W«i day morningi at about nine o'clock, was wrecked the sanjjjky, DROWNED IN A EIVBR. ■', . . ~^ Gisborne, Pridi Tuparoa reports that two men, w names are unknown, were crossta, flooded stream when one bowae hausted and fell in the river «nd drowned. His mate reached laid fa exhausted condition, and was unabl give an account of the locality. deceased is supposed to have bei Swede, - ,

suicide by poisoNnra ; Dunedin, Lait The Superintendent of Police |» ceived a telegram from St. Btt) stating that Christina Sutherland ' liamson, a married woman, of Blacks Hill, committed suicide yesterday drinking a quantity of poison. A YOUNG MAN'S SDTCIDE. Christchurch, Last Nigi An inquevst was held yesterday at 5 k.iri. touching the death of Eric An< Black, aged 30 years, a single man, had been found shot at Parnassus. ceased had been considerably depr* of late, and was suffering from tnti that lie won! 1 go wrong in the h nnd had told his sisters that he wl be better dead than alive. He lefd home a.t 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday at] go to Culverden, but some time latel body was found in a sheep pen. top of his head was blown off, and t! was a gun lying beside him. A v»« was returned that death was due t gunshot wound inflicted by the decej while in a state of unsound mind. J