FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15553, 7 September 1912, Page 4

FATALITIES.

(Per United Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, September 6. Information has been received by. tho police from Uawenc that two Native children were drowned in tho Whirinaki ttiver yesterday. Both were about three years_ of nitc. A constable lias left lo make inquiries. GISBOH-Nls, September 6. Waller Scott, 31 years of age, committed suicide by cutting Ins throat with a razor ul Waipiro Day. . NELSON, September 6. Information was received to-day that a lad named Fred Carbon, 12 years of age, was killed at Big Bush. It appears that his father and another man were busnfellinfc and that a limb fell on the boy, striking his head and chest. lie died before ho i could be removed home.

About 2 p.m. "» Wednesday n man mimed .lolm Nicol, aged 27 years !efl\ tho home of his naronts in Campbell street, Mornington, ostensibly to go for .1 walk. Ho failed to return, and a diligont search was made- to discover his whereabouts, but no sign of him was seen until 4.45 p.m. yesterday, when bo was discovered by bin brother hanging from a rafter in the cellar below bis parents' residence. Constable Mnenrluev was at once summoned, and cut tho bodv" down. Judging by appearances, deceased" hnd evidently climbed tii> a steep clav bank, adjusting the ropo so Iliat when found his body was banging from a beam, with bis feet' clear of the ground. Deceased had been in ill-health for sonic tunc. and appears to have selected n very secluded and almost inaccessible p!»co in wbich to nut an end to his life. An inquest will be held at Mornington at 10 a.m. to-day.