FATALITIES. DEATH OF A STEAMER PASSENGER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19, 24 January 1911, Page 7

FATALITIES. DEATH OF A STEAMER PASSENGER.

[BY TELEGRAPH — KRESS ASSOCIATION.] INVERCAEGILL, 23rd Jan. A steerage passenger by the Warrimoo named A. Rush, who joined the steamer at Hobart, was found on arrival at the Bluff to be in a state of collapse. He had taken no food on the voyage, and was too far gone to give an account of himself. Before he could be brought to the hospital he died. SUICIDE AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, 23rd Jan. The police were informed this afternoon that Mr. Arthur Calcott, who has been for some years an officer of the Agricultural Department, and who has recently been acting as chief clerk of the Christchurch office of the Department, had died suddenly at his residence, Durham-street, St. Albans, under circumstances suggesting suicide. Dr. Goulburn Gibson was called in by Mr. Calcott's family, but could do nothing, Mr. Calcott expiring shortly after the doctor's arrival. An inquest was held this evening, when a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. DROWNED WHILE BATHING. NAPIER, 23rd January. A fatality occurred on the Marine Parade Beach at 6.15 this evening, .when a married man, a tailor's cutter, named S. M. Clapham, went in to bathe. He was in the water not more than three minutes when it was seen that he was incapacitated. An incoming vvavß brought the unconscious man ashore before his would-be rescuers had time to reach the surf. Restorative measures were applied immediately and continued for four hours with the aid of ambulance workers and two doctors without consciousness returning. It is supposed that death was partly due to heart failure.

The Wairarapa Mineral Prospecting Company has been (says the Age) on Its last legs for some months past. It has now an opportunity of shaking itself together, and of justifying its existence. Mr. J. D. Henry, the London oil expert, has arrived in the Dominion to report upon the oil-beariDg properties in Taranaki and Poverty Bay. Cannot his services be procured for a report on the petroleum areas to the east of Masterton? The cost should not be very great, whilst the value to the district of such a report may be enormous. Even the Chamber of Commerce might be induced to tike a hand in such a matter. The leports presented at the hist session of Parliament are sufficiently encouraging to warrant further and complete investigation.