ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14279, 30 July 1908, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

(Per United Pbess Association.) . AUCKLAND, July 29. William Buckthorp, ~ settler, aged 50 hanged hirnself at Henderson, from a beam ■nan outhouse. His wife is on a visit to a friend at Taranaki

INVERCARGILL, July 29. . A man named James Hancock, w'ho was in he habit of sleepine alone in a tent ft Kapuka, wkare he worked,' having an interest in a fkxinill, was found dead in his bunk tins morning with the top of his head bqivii off with a double-barrel gun besido him. Both" barrels had been discharged, and a string was tied to the taggers. Tho man bad suffered from hip disease, and it is understood that he had recently had a depressing report from a doctor, lire deceased, who was about 33 .years of age, had invented an clectrio weed 'ewdicator, and had just completed a successful trial of it.. Tho police are makimr inquiries. &

Last evening a young man named Thomas Spenro was admitted to the Hospital suffering from a fractured thigh. Sponco was employed by Mr Robertson on his farm on the Peninsula and was thrown frorn a young horse which ho was breaking m, sustainuijr the injuries mentioned. Ho is progressing favourablv. Tho Golden Bay Argus' has the following in reference, to the recent disappearance of a Dunedin resident: "Despite tho most rigorous and sustained search, no trace whatever of the late Mr Gardciy Watson, juu., who was lost from a. boat at Pakawau la6t week; can be found. The young man's father, Mr G. B. Watson, arrived here on Friday and has since had search parties, both on land and sea, searching everywhere in the bay and in the vicinity of tho accident, unfortunately without success so fu.r. AH hope of..tho lad's recovery alive is abandoned. The boat in which ho attempted his ill-fated journey, and whioh washed up on Farewell Spit, overturned with.all sail set, seems but too sure evidence of a fatality."