ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 89, 21 May 1914, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A SUICIDE. Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 21. ' ; Elizabeth Schqnberg, aged 32, a voluntary patient at the; Mental Hospital, was found dead with a handkerchief twisted tightly round her neck and fastened to a bed. She was almost kneeling on the floor with her head bent forward 'beneath the end of the bedstead. Ten minutes previously she conversed with a nurse, and to be quite rational. YOUNG MAOBI'S DEATH. WAIBOA, May 21. A Maori named Tipu Karauria, aged 22, a native of Taupo, was drowned.in the Mohaka river last evening. ~ He was engaged in collecting driftW;6od, but slipped in and was carried away. While 'going down stream he managed to get pn a hiige log, and was seen undressing in, order to make an' attempt to swim, when the log Was carried out into the breakers over the bar, and - lie was drowned. ■ The body was recovered.