ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 119, 16 November 1900, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

SUICIDE OF Ar* OCTOGENARIAN. [BY TEIECHIAPfi.— PBESB ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, This Day. George Arundel, an inmate of the Benevolent Institution, left the Homo yesterday morning to visit the grave of his •wife in the Northern Cemetery, and there attempted suicide. At a tat© nour in the afternoon he was found in a very weak siate witli a quantity of blood about him. He was removed to the hospital, but died before arriving. It was faun-d that he had made three cuts into superficial veins in the left leg, and had also attempted' to cut his throat. He was 82 years old. AUCKLAND, 15th November. A man. named Daniel Tapley Moverley, aged 47, a waiter, went to a hotel to buy a pint of beer. He was served by the wife of the licensee, but as she brought the beer she noticed he had his hands to his head aud appeared Very unwell. She went to his assistance, and then sent for a doctor, but Moverley expired before a medical man arrived. The cause of death is believed to have been heart disease. [BT TBLEGBArH — OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PAHIATUA, This Day. Mr. George Morrison, who had «een ill for two days, died suddenly yesterdayafternoon. Deceased, who was well known throughout Hawke's Bay, leaves ft wife and three children. A lad named Holmes met with an accident yesterday, by which lie sustained a fracture of the arm. On -Wednesday night a- little girl named Durrant, living in Napier with her pari ents, washed her hair in kerosene, and was trying to dry it< at the kitchen fire. The hair became^ ignited, and she was badly burned about the head and body.' MASTERTON, This Day. A man named Sablofaki has been admitted to the hospital suffering from injuries to his knee, sustained in an accident yesterday. Mrs. J. Orr broke & blood-vessel at an early hour thi a morning, and was removed to the Hospital, where she is favourably progressing. t Yesterday afternoon a lad eleven years of age named Harold Burridge, son of a fetone resident, was birds-nesting in a tree when he fell, breaking both his thigh bon.es. He was removed to his parents' house, and attended by Dr. Perry.