ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1304, 6 December 1911, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

TRAM FATALITY IN AUCKLAND.., IBy Telecraph - Press .Association.! Auckland, December 5. Charles Anderson, aged about seventy years, was crossing a street intersecting the Ponaonby tramway line this morning, when ho walked behind one car right in front of another car passing in tho opposite direction on the down grade. He was knocked down and carried on the lifeguard till the cai , was brought, up. Ho had been seriously injured in tho brad, and when picked up was breathing his last. YOUNG MAN'S SUICIDE. Auckland, December 5. A young man named Carter, on a visit to his' sister at Turaugaomoana, hanged himself in an outhouse this afternoon.

DEOWNED IN A DAM. Invercargill, December i. Thomas Barrett, aged 79, single, and an old age pensioner, was found dead in the dam of the Mystery Flat dredge, a milo and a half from Waikaia, this morning.

. PAEEMATA FATALITY. On Monday aiternoon an inquest wis held at the Porirua Hotel concerning the death pf' Antonio Ferretto, an Austrian 23 years of a?e, who was drowned : at Parcmata on bunday, November: 19. Deceased was a sailor off the barque Australia. He had been living on Mana Island; and, in tho company of another, man, was rowing to the mainland on No-' ve.mbor 1!) when the Iroat capsized. Forrotto was drowned. Tho body was not recovered till December 3. At .the inquest on Monday Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., returned a verdict, of "acci.eutally drowned.''

From Hawke's Bay Messrs. Lane and M'Carthy announco a property as a going concern. It winters 18,000 first-class sheep and 730 cattle. The h'rm state a better investment has never nrevi»ualy been offered. BROUGHT TO BAY Aro those enemies of civilisation, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, which Dr. Sheldno's Digestive Tabiiks nre employed; Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per tin. .

Mr. "Whitehouse, an English M.l'., has received n. preso.nl from a working miner in h\n conslittiency. IL takes the form of a iif:at liM.lt> alarm dock (sot at Mio hour of Hip declaration of the poll). The frame has (ho appearance nf black ruurWγ, biih in reality is couipoaxl nf pas coal, cut from the. block and wtiatiwlly designed by the donor, au nrdent. admirer and supporter of Mr. Whitehousc/

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs aad Colds, noT.cr. tult, Is. fid.*