ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2155, 27 January 1891, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Auckland, Jan. 23. John McCarthy, tailor, Newmarket, committed suicide this morning by stabbing himself in the breast with shears. He died late this evening. The Eev. John McKay, Otahuhu, one of eur oldest Presbyterian clergymen. is dead. Jan. 24.

Walter Lukeman was found suffocated to death in a hotel garden at Cambridge, bis head lying in a cesspool containing eighteen inches of slush. Deceased was a remittance man with a weakness for strong drink, and was for six months locked up in Mount Eden for delirium tremens, it being feared he might commit suicide, Dor tbe last week he had not eaten a scrap, but lived entirely on drink. At the inquest the verdict was accidental death. Deceased was supposed to have been sleeping in the garden and rolled over into the cesspool. Haweea, Jan. 25.

William Bartlett, coach proprietor and contractor for the mails, fell off his brake and was killed, the wheel passing over his head. He was an old settler, and 65 years of age, Naeibe, Jan. 26.

The search for Chadwick, the supposed murderer of Matheaon at Kakomona, having lasted eleven days, has been abandoned. The police are under the impression that he has perished in the bush, or committed suicide in some place where the body will never be found. WELLiNaiOK, Jan. 23.

W. J. Potts, proprietor of the Times, Keefton, died there this evening from apoplexy. The three-year-old son of Mr J Devon port, laborer, Masterton, fell into the Waipoua Kiver, and was owned;

Jan. 24. A boy named Robert Twxat, son of a carpenter at Oriental Bay, was drowned in the Manawatu at Foxton yesterday. A lad aged 17, named Palmer, son of a widow at Upper Hutt, was thrown from a horse on the Hutt road. The horse trampled on him and he died in two hours. Blenheim, Jan. 26. Thomas Davis, an old resident of Blenheim, fell dead from heart disease, in his ordchard on Saturday afternoon, while fruit picking, Christchurch, Jan. 24. Paul Sneddon alias Brant, boatswain of the ship Albuera, was killed at Lyttelton to-day by falling off the platform of the train for Christchurch just as it was entering the tunnel at 1.40 p.m. The train did not pass over him; but he is supposed to have struck his chest against the points. He was alive, but speechless, whan picked up, and died in 15 minutes.

A well dressed young man named John Comer was arrested last night on a charge of obtaining goods and money by means of valueless cheques at Wellington. When arrested he admitted passing the cheques, but as the telegram through which the accused bad been arrested did not state that a warrant had been issued, Mr Beetham said he could not grant a remand and accused was discharged. He was immediately rear rested, and appealed to the Bench to be reallowed his liberty. Mr Beetham said he bad no control over the action of the police. Blhee, Jan. 25.

An old man named Robert Fraser was found dead in bis bouse here this afternoon. Death had evidently resulted from an apoplectic fit. The body was found on the floor of the bedroom with some blankets off the bed around it. It is presumed that the fit seized deceased in bed, and he being a single man and no assistance at hand, the fit resulted fatally.