ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 December 1928, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

;V SOLICITOR. MISSING

(By Telegraph—Tress Association.)

CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 10. Alfred Henry Gascoigne', aged 50, a well-known solicitor, late senior -partner of the Cambridge legal firm of Gascoigne and Kingsford, is missing. He left his home at Leamington this morning in a car to l drive liis son to the railway station. Subsequently the car was found in the centre of the high-leve/l bridge which spans the Waikato River. Ais Gascoigne, had .not returned the police were notified' and. made a search, but no 'trace of the missing man was found. Gascoigne lias been in ill-health lately and was very depressed!. The partnership was dissolved on Saturday last. Gascoigne has a wife and two sons, aged IS and 16 years respectively . FARMER’S BODY FOUND. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 10. The body of Arthur Ten well,_ aged 47, a married farmer of ICaipoi, was found late to-night in a clump of scrub near Stewart’s Gufily. There was a gunshot wound in the head and a, 'Siingle-barrqled shotgun recently diuecharged was alongside the body. A SETTLER’S INJURIES. GISBORNE, Dec. 10. The latest available information from Te Araroa states that- Mr K F. Reed is still unconscious in the Te AralToa hospital. It te understood he Was kicked on the head while endeavouring to catch a horse. Mr. Reed, a wdll-known settler and county councillor, was severely injuieel while riding over rough country at the back of liis station. TAITA GORGE ACCIDENT. WELLINGTON. Dec. 11. At the Taita Gorge accident inquest, to-day, the coroner said! in reply to counsel’s objection against tlie witness, Horsfall, answering a question relating to happenings' at Quinn £' Post Hotel that the' court was the judge. As be did not think section sixteen of the Evidence Act_ covered prosecution und : er the Licensing Act. the driver might pliead privilege as the answers might involve him in a more serious charge than a breach' of the Licensing Horsfall gave- evidence that they were asked to leave Quinn’s Post Hotel by the; man who served' them, ateo that they bought four large bottles of beer from the proprietress prior to the accidomt i,n tlie "orge. He said that there was a. collision with a telegraph, pole in which a bottle of whisky, also bought at Quinn’s Post Hotel, was broken an hira pocket. None of thaV liquor, lie, said, was consumed prior to the accident.