ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC,

Temuka Leader, Issue 2154, 24 January 1891, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC,

Auckland, Jan. 21.

James Bcrioy, shoemaker, Newmarket, aged 72, fell off the ferry steamer Britiania to-day at the railway wharf, it is supposed in a fit. He was rescued by a boat, but died this evening in the hospital. While four lads, two named Foster and two Davies, were going off to a yacht at Ponsonby in a dingy it capsized. The tide swept them to Ponsonby wharf, where three caught stringers and were saved, but the fourth, Hector Foster, thirteen, son of Mr Foster of the Government Survey Department, sank. His brother and one of the Davies held him up till they were exhausted and had to let go. Mark Rawlings has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling certain moneys belonging to the Orphan Home,, Parnell. A number of similar charges are to be taken. Iwvescaecill, Jan. 21.

R. M. Morrison, dispenser and secretary to the hospital, committed suicide lata this evening by taking prussic acid. He was under notice to leave. The chairman of the trust and the house surgeon had been going into matters connected with the institution and asked Morrison for a document which he wont to his room ostensibly to procure. As he did not return he was sent for, and as the door was found locked it was forced and Morrison found at the point of death He was formerly a soldier, and was an excellent dispenser, but his habits were irregular. He held the Afghan and Egyptian medals and the Khediye’s Star. He was wrong in hia accounts.