FATALITIES.
(Pee United Pbess Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 5. John Peak, aged 62 years, a carpenter, was found dead in an outhouse at his residence, Gladstone street. He had cut his throat with a razor. The death took place at the hospital tonight of Mrs Lynch, who was admitted on February 27 suffering from tlhe effects of lysol poisoning. MASTERTON, March 5. Robert James Ewington, a married man aged 35 years, was out pig shooting in the Lower Valley on Tuesday when his gn-n accidentally exploded and the contents lodged in ihe lower portion of his bodv. He died some hours later. CHRISTCHURCH, March 5. At tho adjourned inquest on the body of William David Robinson, who died in the hospital under ether on Monday night, thu medical evidence, based on a pest mortem examination, was to the effect that death was attributable to heart failure, induced by toxaemia, resulting from intestinal obstruction, and was not duo to the amesthotio. A verdict was returned accordingly. Information was received in Tapanui on Tuesday afternoon (says the Tapanui Courier) from Mr Walter Rodger, at Pomahaka. that "his brother Harry, formerly of the Courier Office, had shot himself on his recently-acquired farm on Conical Hills.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15705, 6 March 1913, Page 4
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