TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8151, 29 May 1906, Page 6

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

FATALITIES. By Telegraph— Press Association. NAPIER, May 28. A carter named William Maxey was found in his employers' (J. and W. Probbles') stable, sitting on the floor with his back against the wall, and having a severe fracture in the baok of his skull. He died yesterday morning without having recovered consciousness. After having a shave, on Saturday night, Maxey expressed his intention of going to the stable to feed his horses, and it is conjectured that he must have been kicked by a horse and knocked agaiust a post or other hard substance. DUNEDIN, May 28. A man, named Matthew Kirkwood, was killed on the railway line near uaiclutha, on Saturday night. It is supposed ne was lying asleep on the line, and that a slow train rau over him. , ur ■►;.■ '■ ' ~ AUCKLAND, May 28. A child, under two years of age, daughter of Mrs Harding, residiug at Brunwsick Street, Pousouby, was drowned by falling into a bath. Tho child's mother found the child kneeling alongside a bath with her clothes saturated with water. On picking her up, she was found to be dead. DIVORCE COURT. WELLINGTON, May 28. In the divorce case, Stevenson v. Stevenson and Russell, a husband's petition, the jury found that the accusation of adultery was disproved. ANOTHER PALMERSTON NORTH ' SENSATION. A CONTRACTOR SHOOTS HIMSELF jyiay 28.__ £- A; s tremendous £ sensation _ was caused in Palmerston North' (his morning when it beoame known that still another had to be added to the list of tragedies which have occurred in this town durirjgthftpast three mouths. f At 10.25 a.m. this morning Mr Joseph Saunders, contractor, wellknown all over the oolony in connection with several publio works, shot himself in the publio reserve, almost oppusito the Post Office. Deceased was seen by the horrified spectators to suddenly raise his right hand to his head and fire. They immediately rushed to him. Deceased had fallen on the side of the Dath and was bleeding profusely , from a wound just above his ear. | The shot passed right through > his head. When medical assistance arrived, Mr Saunders was not quite dead, but expired almost immediately afterwards. The bullet entered just above the right ear, and made its exit higher up on the left side of the head. A five-chambered revslver, apparently just purchased, was still in the deceased's hand, when the eye- ( witnesses rushed up. Deceased was a resident of WeL lington, bur, had valuable property a few miles out of Palmerston North, and spent a lot of time here. He had also been engaged in contract work in the district. Two sons reside here; one on bis property and another in Palmerston North. No reason can at present be assigned for the act, but the deceased was known to have suffered from insomnia for some time past.