CASUALITIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1865, 19 August 1887, Page 21

CASUALITIES.

I A 1 fancy goods dealer named A>. Goldsmith) | wad found dead in his bedroom at Wanganuit A , memorandum- under his- head stated that be- intended to Commit suicide: He had taken aa ! overdose of a sleeping draught. A miner named Mark O'Toole fo missing from Mohikinui, and it is feared he has been drowned in the Mohikinui river. The police and others are searching. . Oar Tapanti? Correspondent telegraphs that Mr D. Herbert's fatrtt dwelling house was .destroyed by fire on the i&bft. I* was insured; in the Standard office for ££00. An inquest will likely be held into the circutttataoees of the I origin of the fire. A boy named John Smith, who was engaged on Saturday in the favourite pastime of spearing fish from thff steps- of the Rattray_ street wharf,, narrowly escaped death 1 by drowning. He oveni balanced himself ,- fell into* the water, and waa ' disappearing from view for the third time when 1 a lad named Albert Rough ton, 14 years of age, 1 a son of Mr J. Tv Koughton, of South ]>unedin» ' gallantly jumped in,- snd after some trouble brought young Smith to t-ite tending? where he was taken out of the water it: s very exhausted ' cotttUkfotc. Ifoutig Smith is seven yeara of agt. | The gallant conduct of young Konghton » worthy of re6'o"gnitJotr. " He' only , learned to swim last summer, and m jumping into the water his personal risk was considerable. A. lac? named Frederick. Vivian,- aged seven, was drowfre'df m Freeman's Bay,' Auckland on Monday night. Tfcfe boy was playiDg with other children and must haW fallefl over tbe embank-

ment, as the dead bcsy\ Was- fotmc!' shortly afterwards. • A fishing boat was found on Suftday upset afc the north side of Chamberlain Island, Auckland. All hands are missing. One of the men is named Waklin. The others are unknown. Information has reached the police authorities at Auckland that a whare at Whatepu, Manukau Heads, occupied by two Natives— an old man and woman— took fire, and the inmates were so severely burned that they died shortly after being rescued.

On Monday forenoon, Thomas Herbert Biggs,

a shoemaker at Farnell, blew out his brains with a balldog' revolver. Deceased, who was 59 years old, had been depressed through brood-

ing over money matters, but was really well-to-do. He had been a teetotaller for 16 years, and formerly served in the &Sth Regiment.

Frederick George Sibun, barman at the Royal Hotel, Christchurch, shot himself on Tnesday night. He was found next morning lyhig in his room with a revolver in his hand and a bullet wound in - his head. At the inquest a verdict of " Suicide' while temporarily insane" was returned. He left letters addressed to the licensee and manager of the hotel, stating that he intended to kill himself on account of a love affair with two women. ' It appears that two years ago he recdved a severe injury to his head in Wellington through the balance weight of a lift falling on him, and that he attempted suicide some tune ago.