ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 9 December 1911, Page 13

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

AT EHANDALLAH. Early yesterday morning Claude Haines was iound dead in an outhouse at his residence at. Khandallah- Deceased bad been in business as a batcher in Aro street.

The circumstances related-bv tho police were to the effect that Mr. Haines had of kite been suffering from heart tronble. Un ihursdny he had spent a verv restless night in bed. On Fridav morning he P ot «P at - about 4.43 and did not return. At 5.10 Mrs. Haines got up and on going into the coalhouse sho had found her husband hanging from the roof by a chain attached to a leather strap. Her son cut tho strap, and a medical man was called.

Heart failure from shook was the cause of death.

An inquest will be ' hold at the residence of Mrs.-Haines, Khandallah, al ton o clock this morning.

DROWNED IN WANGANUI RIVER. (By TcleeraDh.-Prcss Association.) , Wanganui, December 8. A drowning accident happened to-day in the river opposite Landguard Bluff, two miles below the'town. Charles Wood, carpenter, married, had been in town at tho election on tho previous dav, and had eelobrated tho occasion. This nfornin" he went to work at Mitchell and Com°pany's new freezing works, but it was deemed advisable to send him home by launch. As tho launch was leaving, and when the other men, were in the engineroom, Wood apparently fell off and was drowned. Dragging- operations have so far been unsuccessful.

At the Tow.n Hall on Sunday evening, at 8.30 o'clock, a thanksgiving servico for tho recent prohibition vote will bo held. A similar service will also be held nt tho Trinity Church, Newtown, at the same time. The general public are invited to attend.

Messrs. Crichton and Mlvay, architects, Bank Chambers, invite tenders for the erection of a wool storo and offices for Messrs. Dalgety and Co., at Blenheim.

Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. notify in this issue that they will sell the contents of a six-roomed residence, at 90 Roxburgh Street, on Tuesday next, December 12.

Messrs. Harcourt and Co., land agents, havo ah announcement in this issue giving- particulars of two properties for sale. '

The first half-yearly meeting of the Bowron Bros. Export and Trading Company will bo held at the company's offices, Yaralla Chambers, Pitt Street, Sydney, on Tuesday, December 19.

Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. announce in onr auction columns that on Monday next, December '11, at their rooms, at 2.30 p.m., under instructions from the mortgagee, they are submitting two well-situ-ated five-roomed dwellings in Mortimer Terrace. These are Nos. 74 Mortimer Terrace, containing five rooms and bathroom, with front and sido verandah, and large basement, on land having a frontage of 35ft. Tin.; and No. 70 Mortimer Terrace, containing five rooms, with bathroom and front verandah, on land 50ft. by 92ft., having an entrance 15ft. wide from Mortimer Terrace. Details appear in the advertisement, and further particulars may be had on application to the auctioneers. They also advertise that, on Tuesdav next, December 17, on the premises, So. 272 Willis Street, at 2 p.m, thev aro selling, under instructions by the' holder of a bill of sale, a quantity of machinery and plant. Amongst the articles to bo submitted are engine and boiler, circular saw, Cooper's .anvil and bench, shaping, planing, morticing, painting, and boring machines, turning lathe, tarpaulins, and beltings. The machinery will bo on view on morning of sale.

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