Accidents and Fatalities.

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 1, 3 July 1899, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities.

Telegraph, Pre-s Association. Copyrich

Christchurch, June 30,

A suspected suicide is reported from Oxford. The body of Herbert Sherman, a settler, was found in his stable on Thursday with the muzzle of a shotgun pointing to a wound through his heart Auckland, June 30. Miss Elsie Atkin was thrown from her horse, aud lies in a very critical condition. Mr Allen W O'Neill, a solicitor, died suddenly at Northcote Hotel, where he re-ided. He was a son of the late James O'Neill, an old Auck land identity.

Sydney, June 30,

A. farm°r was felling a tree at North Creek, when it sudden'y came down, kilting two Hindoos who were wotkiug beneath it.

Dunedin, This Day.

John Henderson, aged 60, single, was fonnd dead in a boarding-house this morning. He had been suffering from a bad cough for some weeks. New Plymouth, This Day.

At the inquest on the girl Reader, held on Saturday afternoon, the jury returned a verdict tbat the deceased met her death by falling from some height on to the rocks while in a state of great mental depression caused partly by defective eyesight. Obituary — F. E. Clark, chief draughts man in the Survey Office. He died rather suddenly on Saturday evening from heart disease. The deceased, who came here from tbe West Coast five yearn ago, was a great authority ou sea fisheries.