ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2040, 1 May 1890, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

News of the discovery of the dead body of Ernest Peter on the bed of the Tutaekuri river has reached Napier. Deceased was a son of the Hon. W. S. Peter, ot Ashburtoii, Canterbury, and was visiting Hawke’s Bay with the object of purchasing a country property. He left town on the 14th inst, and was never since heard of till the discovery of his body; His horse was found on the 17th tied to manuka scrub some little distance off the road about five miles from Pukotapu, which plaice deceased was seen to pass through. On Saturday last it was learnt that the horse had been found and the police were at once communicated with, a search was instituted, and the body was found on Monday. A boy named John Wright, two years of age, was accidentally drowned in the Waipawa river last Tuesday. A boy named George Gordon was killed in Wellington last Monday through a quantity* of timber falling on him, A young man named Drysdale was violently thrown from his horse at Martenborougb, Wellington, last Monday and instantly killed, A : single man, named William Alexander, a rabbitter at Rockland Station, Deep Stream, is supposed to have committed suicide by browning. He had returned from Dunedin and appeared to be suffering from the effects of a drinking bout but talked rationally. He was troubled with insomina. He got up early on Sunday and on search being made his body was found in Deep Stream, He is said to have a sister living in Wellington. Leonard Chitty, 60 years, was found hanging in his own outhouse next the Caversham Railway station. He was seen about half an hour previously. Chitty also bought a quantity of laudanum, and the bottle was found, nearly empty, in the outhouse where the body was found. He had frequently quarrelled with his wife and family and had threatened to take her life. At the inquest the verdict was that he hanged himself while suffering from temporary insanity.