ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 137, 13 June 1910, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[ST TELEGBAPH— PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, This Day. The body of an unknown man was washed up on the Northcote Beach yesterday afternoon. The body, which has apparently been three or four days in the water, has not yet been identified, though in the hat deceased had been wearing is written the name of ''S. O'Caillain," or "F. O'Caillian." His age is between 40 and 50. A sudden death occurred at Newmarket yesterday afternoon. A man named John Hodson Aislabie went to the backdoor at the premises of William Doble. tailor, Manukau-road, and asked for Dall, who resides next dooi. He then complained of pain in the heart, and suddenly expired. A married woman named Elizabeth Yardley attempt to commit suicide by shooting herself in the breast, on Saturday. She is a recent arrival from Malta, and a few weeks ago underwent a serious operation. The revolver had been held in a slanting direction towards the left, with the result mat the bullet followed round the rib, coming out under the left armpit. The wound is not considered serious. * CHRISTCHURCH, 11th June. An infant named Graham, six weeks' old, was found dead in its parents 1 "bed this morning. The child was in good health when put to bed. CHRISTCHURCH, 12th June. I Mrs. Devon, who resides at Sock- j burn, was a passenger by the 4.15 p.m. I train from town on Saturday. She stepped off the train when it was passing Hornby station, where she desired to alight. - The train was not scheduled ! to stop there, and it went past at the rate of about ten miles an hour. When assistance^ reached her, Mrs. Devon was found lo have been much cut about the head and was suffering from shock. She was taken to the hospital, and this afternoon was reported to be progressing favourably towards recovery. DUNEDIN, 12th June. A footballer named W. Roberts, playing for Ravensbourne against Northern B yesterday, suffered a fracture of the leg near the ankle. He was admitted at the hospital. In the hockey match St. Martin's v. All Saints,- -one of the forward players collided with an opponent and broke his collar-bone. THAMES, 11th June. Patrick Hogan, a single man, twentynine years of age, who was employed in the Tairua district, committed suicide at the Imperial Hotel, Pollenstreet, by cutting his throat with a razor. He returned from Auckland last night and appeared all right. He had his meals as usual. He was found this afternoon with his throat cut. He died shortly afterwards. Deceased has no relatives here.