ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13093, 5 June 1913, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.)

WHANGAREI, last night. ,' Five months ago Robert Apps?, then an inmate of the Whangarei Old Men's Home, Avandered aAVay from the institution, and, though a search Was 'made in various directions, no trace of the missing man Avas found. lt Avas generally supposed' that he had attempted to cross to the Dargaville district. Avhence he originally came." The mystery of Apps' fate Avas solved yesterday by some boys who, Avhile out on a mushroom-gathering expedition, found the body on Mr.Millington's property, hidden in high ti-tree, and hanging by one of 'the "legs to a wire fence. At the inquest a. verdict that Apps died from exposure was returned.

AUCKLAND, last night. Just before noon to-day it AA-as reported to the Avaterfront police that the body of a man had been seen floating in the water off Hobson street Avharf. A constable had it removed and com'eyed to the morgue. The body Avas very much decomposed, ahd had eA'idently been in the Avater for some days. The man appears to have been between 30 and 40 years of age. He was dressed in a blue serge suit, and other marks about th?. clothing Avould indicate thnt he followed a seafaring life. The body has not so far been identified. A note in his poc-ket-book said : "Do not knoAv address of my daughter, Rita Gerine, but think it is Bremen. My brother's address' is Oberneuland, ne'ar Bremen, Germany:"--' HAMILTON, last night. William Campbell, .an elderly liu'ercargill visitor, was tossed by a bull Avhen visiting the Ruakura State* faann to-day, ?nd rendered unconscious. Fortunately the animal AA-as partly dehorned, otherAviso the results Avould have been serious.

• HASTINGS, last nigty. , Mr Thomas Groome,. aged about 45 years, the eldest son of Mr M. E. Groome, a Avell-knoAvn sheepfarmer, and the owner of Teonepu station, dropped dead this morning. Deceased had been attended for heart trouble. Ho leaves a Avidow, but no children.