FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 85, 11 April 1902, Page 2

FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

[united press association.] BOATING FATALITY" AT AUCKLAND. TWO MEN DROWNED. AUCKLAND, April 10. Shortly before three o clock thiß afternoon the dead bodies of tvo men were found floating off Freeman's Bay reclamation. They had probably lost their lives during the nightjor early this morning-, the supposition being that they were returning from a yacht, which was anchored furthe out, in a dingy, which capsized. The men were subsequently identified as Charles Sawyers and Alexander Moore, both drapers. Later. Further particulars regarding the boating accident, by which Sawyers and Moore were drowned, show that they left for a yacht in a small dingy, intending to go for a sail. I'hey were seen to board the boat andsail down the harbour, and the yacht returned in the evening, but no one saw the young men put off for shore. It is piesumed, however, that the deceased neither of whom could swim, were capsized when pulling ashore in the di' gy. Sawyers has two brothers in ■-" CHRISTCHURCH, April 10. George Booker, a b ashman, was drowned in the Waiotu Creek, near Whangarei, wb ils rafting timber. Hi 3 body has been recoriTtd. DUNEDIN, TtisDay. At the inqnesl cm the body of Joseph Forsyth, it was shown that deceased was depressed over losing his swag, and also that he was at times a little weak in his miud, A verdict of suicide by hanging while temporarily insane was returned. MARTON, This Day. A Moari woman his died suddenly at Taihape, and there is a rumour of foul play.J A man named Canning committed suicide at Huuterville to-day,