FATALITIES

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1934, Page 7

FATALITIES

SETTLER DROWNED. SYDNEY. August 17. AVilliam Murphy, sixty five, settler was drowned on attempting to swim Iho swollen Tuross river, near Bodal la. a fortnight ago. Nothing iwas known of the tragedy until his starving dog and cat walked through the scrub to a miner’s camp over two miles from Murphy’s farm. BABY BURNT TO DEATH. GISBORNE. August 16. .Early this morning, the residence ef the Anglican Maori minister at Tokomaru Bay. Rev. R. Rangiaho. was destroyed by fine, and the minister’s on y child, aged two months, was in(im*:,tiled. The child was sleeping alone in a cot, in the sitting room, where a candle had been left alight II is believed that wind blew a curtain against (he candle. When the minister and wife :»wakenod. the front room was ablaze, and the minister was severely burnt. in '•ndeavouring to reach the child. Th' Hanies drove him back and the wholebuilding, containing five rooms, wr.s dost toyed within ten miulitps, Thp minister and wife, and the former s aged father, escaped through a win dow. The remains of the child could not be found this morning. YOUTH MISSING. BLENHEIM, August 17. Robert Smart, only son of J. C Smart. Rai Valley, aged about 18, ?> nnssitig. Yesterday he wtis engaged carrying timber over a swing-bridge across the Rai River, which was in heavy flood A high wind was also blowing. Th' t niber •which he was carrying wo l -- found down-stream, and it is feare that he fell from the bridge and wtis swepl away. DEATHS ON AUSTRALIAN LINER. LONDON, August 16. Tragedv and drama marked the Barrabool’s voyage from Australia. Miss Euphemia Street. scho ll teacher, died of heart failure Miss Matilda I’itzpat rick, trove*linQ with a party of Sisters of Nazareth died pneumonia. Quartermaster 11 end v slipped from the bridge, and was.fatally injured. All were buried at sea. FOUND DROWNED. AUCKLAND, August 17. Duncan Colin Macfarquahar, 44. an accountant, was found dt’owned at Kohiniarama to-day He was married and had been in ill-health, ami left his h<>m at Onehunga yesterday.