ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16034, 28 September 1915, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

RAILWAY FATALITY. INVALIDED SOLDIER KILLED. [BT TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] WangaNui, Monday. The body of Corporal Claude Comyns, "''' whose father »was the late Mr. Robert: Comyns, of Auckland, and whose mother , v resides in Wanganui, was found on. the :- railway line near Okoia early . this morn- v' ing. It is supposed that he. fell from a/; train on Saturday night. He was prob- ■-*', ably killed instantly. Deceased left with the main body, and was recently invalided ; on account of deafness. / :l ; ■ Wjw; DEATH BY DROWNING. V; BOAT SWAMPS. AT PATEA. H"^H [BY telegraph.—press association*.] C^'% Wangastot, Monday. "t* A married man named Angus Macintosh* McLeod was drowned' on Patea Bar yes- '- terday, owing to a boat swamping. Four other occupants 'got- ashore safely. = .--De- *%? ceased was 36 years of age, and leaves ft wife and seven children. ~ ' r -■ The body has not been recovered. .;_■ • SUICIDE IN HOSPITAL. SWEDE CUTS HIS THROAT. " Or.: telegraph.—press . association.] ■ =-vl ■ "V '...- r -:\ '■',-■'.■'■'■" "' " '"'■' ' J — :f r Sf?SESf - ;/; Hokitika, Monday.' : • : ; Andrew August, ,a, native -of Sweden," :. 60 years .. of . age,' committed suicide iin\ : ; Westland Hospital on Saturday afternoon while in bed,-cutting;his* throat with a razor. A nurse 'heard a ; gurgling "sound, and . found .the patient bleeding copiously from a wound. .- . : " >,- - L WORKMAN INJURED. -; .; EXPLOSION OF AMMONIA TANK. £bt TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, -_ Monday. - A married; man named Cyril Sinclair, ; living "at'.'Miramacrj-!-and employed by the Company there, was admitted to the hospital * this V- afternoon, suffering : from severe injuries to his face and ; hands V- - through the explosion of an - amnion tank at the company's ■ works while he was i engaged in doing some welding by the Acetone process. iiO: UNIDENTIFIED BODY. VERDICT AT CORONER'S INQUEST.- '-> [BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] , Dunedin, Monday. ;■ The ' inquest on the human.- remains found at Purakanui on Saturday was held ?*ti at Port Chalmers this ' afternoon. ' The" - body could not" he identified, but evidence -l-V, given led to the belief that the remains i?s were those of Alfred Arthur Austin, an •'-■'■ [ assistant chemist, who disappeared on May 116, 1914. Austin was a married man, liv- : r> ing in South Dunedin, and the last seen :: of him was at Port Chalmers one Saturday evening. The coroner returned a verdict. • that the remains were those of Alfred Austin, and that he died some time in r 1914.... ~ ~ ,*■:;■*>' ■?&:\»3&