ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 29 November 1927, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

body OF MISSING YOUTH FOUND

IK v iki-koraph —cukss association.) GREYMOUTH. Nov 2b. The body of a youth named Cnarlc Sweetman who has been missing sine. L’hursdav, was to-day found on the each at the Ten Mile between here uni Barrytown. DEATH OF A BUSINESS MAN. WANGANUI, Nov. 29. _ The inquest concerning the death or \y E. McCarthy, a draper, was belt! bo-duv. The coroner returned a verdict that deceased met his death by, asphyxiation when mentally unsound. FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE. CARTERTON, Nov. 29. - Edwin James, aged 76, a well-known farmer at. Park vale, committed suicide >a,st. night by shooting himself in the head with a v pea rifle, death being instantaneous. The deceased was having his* t-Cii when, through the olectrie light failin" t.’ie whole family had to assist m completing the milking. A younger daughter on returning to the house about eight o’clock found her father sitting in his arm chair in the frontroom with a pea rifle lie tween his knees. He was quite dead. He leaves a, widow and a family of nine children, mostly grown up.

An extraordinary story is told of a serious operation said to have been performed on himself by a native, Johnny Welca, aged 48, in the Wai.roa district, says the Napier “Daily Telegraph.” Weka- is a. well-known Morere Maori, and lias suffered for some years with a diseased leg. It is related that recently he bound the limb tightly with twine, and with a razor amputated the member below the knee. Later Weka undid the twine, and had almost bled to death before lie was found. He was immediately removed to the Wiairoa Hospital, and from inquiries there it was learned that he was making ■satisfctory progress towards recovery from his remarkable operation.