ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10673, 24 January 1911, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

' (Per Press Association.) Irivercargill, January 23. A steerage Vp.asse'nger. : byj~ the 'Warrimoo, named "A. Rush, .who joined the steamer at Hobart; was -found- oil arrival at the Bluif. to be in a statue of collapse. He'bad l , taken no food on the voyage, and was'--too far gone to j give an account of hinVself; Before lid pould be brought to the bospital be died. •■",. Napier, January .23.

A fatality occurred on the Marine Parade beach at 6.15 this evening, jwhen a married.man, a tailor's cutter, named S; M. Clapham, went in to bathe. He was in the water liot more .than three minutes, when it was seen that he was incapacitated. An incoming ; wave brought the unconscious man ashore before his w ; ould-be rescuers had time to l reach > the surf. Restorative measures were applied immediately, and continued for four'hours with- the.aid of ambulance workers and two doctors without -consciousness: returning.; It is supposed that death was partly due -to heart failure, , Christehurch, January; 23. The police were ; informed this {after--noon that-Mr Arthur; Ciilcott,' who had been-for:some years an officer. 6f the Agricultural-Department, and iwli'o has recently !>een acting as chief clerk of the; Christchurnh office of the DjepartmsritT,.had : died? suddenly at his resi,denee, Durham street, ■ St. Albans, under ; circumstances suggesting; :stiicide. Dr-: Goulburn., Gibson was called ' r in by MnCalcbtt's-familyj but; could, dp -no,thing,. Mr. • Calcott r expiring .shortly after.-the/doctor's, arriv-al., : At an inquest "held (this-evening the verdict, was suickle-while .of. unsound niind. j