ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
DEATH AT SEA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. ■During the voyage of the liner Rimutaka from London the ship’s writer, F. Leach, a New Zealander, died from heart failure and was buried at sea. Deceased was a married man, forty years of age, and signed on at Wellington. The passengers subscribed over ,£lOO for the benefit of his widow. WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. Christchurch, Last Night. At an inquest on the body of Mary Eagle, a single woman, who was found dead in a gully near Governor s Bay, the evidence showed that she had been an inmate of the Auckland mental hospital and was out on probation. The verdict was that she died by poison self administered while insane. DEATH FROM INJURIES. Wellington, Fob. 14. Joseph Rainsby. a waterside worker who had his left foot torn off and was otherwise injured as the result of being entangled in a wire rope on tlie steamer Port Nicholson, died last night in the Hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1921, Page 3
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