ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TIMAEU, April 8. The body of William Fogson, a clerk in the Stock' Department office, was found floating in the harbour this afternoon. with a wound on the head suggesting that he fell off the eastern molo staging while taking his usual walk before breakfast. Deceased was about sixty years of age, and was an old colonist. For many years past he had been 'employed as a clerk in the Lands and Stock Departments at Wellington and Christchurch, and for the last four years had been at Timaru. Ho had a wife and several grown-up children iu Christchurch GISBOENE, April 8. Harry Somerville, aged twentythree years, a sou of W, F. Somerville, sheepfarmer, is missing from Tolago Hay. Ho is known to have crossed the Nawa river on Saturday, but has not since been hoard of. Xt is feared ho has been drowned. The skeleton of a human being has been found on the beach at Makarori, just above high-water mark. It has apparently been there for many years, being unearthed by the action of the sea. WAIEOA. April 8. Mr William Mayo, aged forty years, died on Saturday evening. Ho had been secretary of the local Foresters for thirteen years DUNEDIN, April 8. The body of a man named Meikle, who was lost on the Galloway run about six months ago, has been found at the foot of a cliff near Mnnorbuvn creek. INGLEWOOD, April 8. The body of a man named Chinn, missing since March 2Xth, was found yesterday in an advanced stage of decomposition. Harks showed that varicose veins in one log had been opened and the throat cut. A verdict of suicide during temporary insanity was returned. A man named A. E. Smith, while employed loading the s.s. Turakina, which is lying at the Glasgow Wharf, met with a painful accident yesterday. He was carrying a shoulder of beef aboard, when ho slipped on some grease, and fell heavily, fracturing the patella of his right leg. He was attended by Dr Lcishman, surgeon of the ship, who ordered his removal to the hospital.