NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2191, 24 July 1886, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.

CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. A Misnamed John Hmry Woods was killed this morning in Mr Wilson Fisher'B bush, Eist Oxford, by a tiee falling on him. He leaves a widow and nine children. Sydney Cloxon, the inebriate who escxped fiom the Hospital, where he had been bent for treatment for delirium tr emeus, was tetaken early this morning. The Hospital authorities declining to receive the man, he was sent to gaolNELSON, Ihursday. Frank Brown, journeyman bootmaker, was found dead at the Britannia Hotel, Revvaka, this mottling. It was a case of suicide fiom " Rough o>i Rits." He had recenMy di lived from Takaka, on a visit to liis wife, who was living at the hotel named. He toik the poison last night in a glass of beer, and went to bed. A veulict of '' Suicide w lule under the influence of ilt ink " was returned, with a rider that Tapner, the ptopiietor of the hotel, showed great want of feeling in not giving proper attention to the deceased, knowing he had taken poison. A renidt kable death oecuired at Motue-k.i on Monday la-t. Mrs William Taylor, seniot, w iien passing near a beehive, was stuiii: on the face just below the eye by a bee. The sting wa3 extiacted, but the deceased complained of feeling lud, ami tweiit\ minutes after she wis stung she was dead. She had sutFoied ftom asthma, and her blood being poiaoncd by the stuit,', affected the heart. DUNK DIN. Thursday. A fatal iccdeut occnried at Kararara Gorge la->t murht. Alexander Cameron was working in a tunnel when it collapsed, completely burying him. A boy aged twelve years, named Hansen, was wit 1 ) him, and there is no hope that the latter will be saved. Willing hands were promptly at the woik of rescue, and alI though Camerons body has been reached more than once, additional slips have prevented it being extricated. He is known to l>e deid, luit the boy may be fui ther in the tunnel and yet alive, although this is very doubtful. Relays of men aie still at work endeavouring to effect the lad's rescue. Friday. The bodies of Cameron and the boy Hansen, buried by a fall of -earth in the tunnel at Kuaiaia Gorge have been recox eied,. The man was not disfigured much, but the hoy whs, fearfully crushed. The dres>, of Mrs McDonald, wife of a ship carpenter, caught tire while she was binning some rubbish. Not noticing it, she went outside when it bh/ed up, and burnt her so seriously that recovery is doubtful.