ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 15 September 1914, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A SETTLER K1Li...,/ By Telegraph.—Per Press .% .ation, ' iPahiatua, 1,,- ,vjgit. J. T. Priest, an old \: ■ ~ >eUler, v,as Wiled to-day. H e , ng on . his drill on the farm w i< horses boKed, aaid ihe fell fro™ : acliiue. Kis hkull was fractured, a , .lb. was evidently instantaneous. I ..ceased, who -was highly respected, j. WJ i e and a grown-up family. \ DROWNED IN SWIMMIn VTU. ', Dimedin, ~ Night. At about nine o'clock t. ~°Hliile a number of young lads v.. . ..ijojhig. themselves in the Corpora 4,, ihs.'oneof their number felt what .■< to do a body on the bottom. 11, . -diatelv informed Mr Olds, ths ca , laker, whoat once rang the bell oidc ■ ■< jveryonein the bath to their cloth- - i 0 ma <i e a thorough inspection, 1 , , ,\i not find any clothes without a.. . ;.jr, and. he resumed teachi.ig some . ~j» lads - when one of those who were u. ;jc bath when the alarm wes first g" aformed him that there was a suit in a locker which apparently • io t been: claimed. Mr Olds thercup .vcd for the purpose of searching f missing: person, out could find no . owing to the discoloration of t', ter. Hethen let out some of th jr, and ultimately rescued the hod i ,i youngfellow in the deeped pi" ie ear©- > taker rendered first aid, a.' • ,- u called. in Br. (Jorclou Mae Donald,; ,o notiBVIil tlie police. Some ti- ;, Bpent in endeavoring to effect itation, hut up to ID.JO p.m. wi( success. The young fellow, 'apparci • .* about, 17 years of age, but had r a ide». '< dified at a Jato hour. '■ /

FARMER'S WOT, & IS. * Duntdin, ' \ight AVonl has been men? o Jox-al police that .Mis Maigxret j i aged 48, wife of Mr Xeill ])la<k, - ier at Maungatun, committed rui i atirday morning by hanging" hcisc 1 a cord from a bedroom door ed hid been in bad health ln.ti.lj, had biCt'me very depressed