SUICIDE-AT SAWYERS' BAY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14800, 6 April 1910, Page 2

SUICIDE-AT SAWYERS' BAY.

The police at Dunedin received a telephone message from Port Chalmers last night ,to the effect that James Carter, residing with' his mother, who is a widow, at Sawyers'' Bay, committed suicide about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon by shooting himself in the\' temple with a pea-rifle.' There is ino known cause for-the act, except that the young man was out of work for some time. An inquest will probably be held to-day.-

A distressing accident occurred at Clyde Oil Thursday morning whereby the four-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs William Brookes suffered such severe injuries that she succumbed! on Sunday afternoon, The Dunstan Times says that,' Mrs Brookes had just drawn a large tub of boiling water from the copper when the child" who was playing about alongside, by some means overbalanced and fell bodifv right into Hie Water. Mr T. Wilkinson promptly rendered first aid, and medical assistance was at once called in, but in spite of everything that could he done to alleviate her suffering the child gradually sank, dying about 4.50 p.m.