ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16591, 14 January 1916, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

—I (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 13 An old-age pensioner, Markwick Ashdown Sicvyer, committed suicide at Swanson by jumping into a creek. Ho,left a letter indicating his intention. It is stated that he ! had com© to tho ooncltision that life was not worth living. NEW PLYMOUTH, January 13. ■ L. Jensen, second mate of tho schooner < C. S. Holmes, which had just arrived from 1 Puget Sound, was drowned in the harbour j last night. He appears to have missed his < footing when going aboard. ( (From Ode Own Correspondent.) ' ARROWTOWN, January 13. , A fatal accident occurrcd at Quccnstown yesterday evening, a young man named J Samuel Jones losing his life. He was working in a gravel pit, and was caught by a f fall of gravel and stones. When ho was * extricated lifo was extinct. He was 22 t years of age, and was a son of Mrs S. f Jones, of Quccnstown. An inquest was held \ to-day, and a verdict of accidental death c was returned. A midd'a-aged n&n named Charles Lee, r who resides at Ross street. South Dunedin, was admitted to the Hospital last evening. suffering from an injured leg, received n through falling from a cart. n = | s ' v Oanrelfl bred specially for epoed can travel V team 70 to 90 miles a day. I £