STORM IN JAPAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 21 March 1910, Page 5

STORM IN JAPAN.

EIGHT HUNDRED LIVES LOST. [Press Association—Copyright.] LONDON, Saturday. Reuter states that fifty fishing boats were wrecked in a storm in East Ja pan, and 800 people were drowned. SUICIDE AT WANGANUT. WANGANUI', Sunday. A man named Thomas Norwood committed suicide last night by jumping into the river off the town bridge. His body has not yet been recovered. CRUSHED TO DEATH BY LOGS. AUCKLAND, Saturday. A man named Peter Leef, a bushman, met with a serious accident while tramming logs in the bush. He died while being conveyed to the hospital.

THROWN FROM A HORSE

A FARMER KILLED

INVERCARGILL, Monday,

Mr James Miller, a well-known farmer of the Mossburn district, was thrown from his horse on Thursday, and died at the Riverton Hospital on Sunday. An inquest is to be held.

A MAN MISSING AT AUCKLAND

DEATH BY DROWNING FEARED

AUCKLAND, Monday,

The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a man named Fraud Hill, aged 40, who was last seen aboard the yacht Katie at Mechanics' Bay, Parnell, on Saturday forenoon, point to the probobility of a drowning fatality. Hill, who was in the employ of Mr Edward Hodgson, coal and explosive merchant, Parnell, barded the yacht at about 10 a.m. on Saturday to proceed to Maraiti, about six miles from Auckland, for a cargo of explosives. Mr Hodgson, upon being informed on Saturday afternoon that the craft was still at her anchorage, about 400 yards from Wynyard Pier, went out to the vessel to ascertain from Hill the cause of his delay in starting. The only traces Mr Hodgson could find of his employee, however, were his coat, hat, and pipe.

No tidings of the missing man have come to hand. Mr Hodgson states that when he last saw Hill on board the yacht he was hauling in the cable chain, and he fears that he must have slipped and fallen overboard. The depth of water at the anchorage is 11 feet.

A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. CLOTHING CATCHES FIRE. •A CARTERTON JURY ON FLANNELETTE.

CARTERTON, Monday.

At the inquest on the daughter of Mr. W. J. Macauley, of Carrington Settlement, the evidenc showed that the child was burned to death through her night-clothes of flannelette catching fire. The jury added a strong rider to their verdict condemning the use of flannelette, by which they declared many lives were sacrificed, and asking the Government to impose a prohibitive duty in the cause of humanity. The material was denounced as dangerous to life and inimical to health, and the jury thought it should be banished fro mevery household.

SUICIDE BY AN AGED PENSIONER

AFTER AN ALLEGED DRINKING BOUT.

NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday.

An Imperial pensioner named Francis Eastfield Bilton, aged 79, committed suicide by cutting his throat this morning. Be> is alleged to have been drinking heavily lately. The deceased leaves a widow and a large famijy. FATE OF A MISSING WOMAN. FOUND DROWNED. The body of a young woman named Sutton, who has been missing since Tuesday, was found this morning floating in the river.