ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1907, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[B? TBLEGaAPH.— EHKSB ASSOCIATION.} HOKITIKA, 18th December. John Scopinich, «i well-known minor, a native of Austria, was found dead this morning-, -with his head in a basin of water on tho floor, and a heavy iron trunk on the back of his head. It was evidently a case of determined suicide. Deceased was getting gradually blind, and was to be admitted during the afternoon to an old men's homo. AUCKLAND, This Day. ' At Waiuku, «n Austrian named Peter Gojack disappeared^ from his camp on Monday morning", leaving a paper on the table with his name and tho sign of the cross. Gojack's body was found yesterday in some thiok scrub, death haying been caused by a gun-shot v.-ouncT. ~ DUNEDIN, This Day. Sirs. Stubberficld died suddenly at Palmerston South, yesterday, presumably from | heart trouble. Her husband is a carpen- | ler at Christchurch. [ A railway guard named George Hudson was admitted to the hospital this morning suffering from severe injuries caused by afall from a train in the vicinity of the Thomdon station. The injured man, who is married and resides in Little Hawke-stouc-street, was found to bo afflicted with two severe scalp wounds and injuries to j tho shoulder. At present he }s in a very ; low condition. / w __ wp *- ww __«_ i __ - _^___»_^ - _ - _ --

Mr. C. M'Kecgan, who hag been transferred Irom tho local branch of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society to Dunedin, proceeds South this evening. Mr. M'Keegan will bo much missed in Wellington yachting circles. To-morrow, at 2.30 p.m., at their rooms, _ Messrs. J. 11. Bethune and Co., under instructions from tho Registrar of tho Supreme Court, are submitting two properties n.l auction. The first is a qunrlor-acro block at s Johnsonville, situated in the township. t The second property is a freehold at Hie corner of Tina-kori-road and Cottlevillc-tcrrace. The land hab front :i,.jns of 38fl- sin to the former nnd 80ft to the hitter street, and on tho land stand shop and dwelling No. 2 and cottage No. 4, Tinakori-road, also building fronting Cottleville-terrace. Robert Martin, Lid , 17, Manners-street, advertise in Ihis issue particulars concerning wall papers, mirrors, leaded lights, and picture framing.

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