ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9652, 4 January 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Per Press Association. Ashburton, January 4.

On Monday morning a young man named James Johnstone, 18 years of age, a sou of Christopher Johnstone and in the employ of D. G. Wright, Surrey Hills, went out shepherding, and not returning in the evening a search party was sent out and found his horse without its rider about four miles from the homestead, and Johnstone was subsequently found dead near the horse on a small hill. No cause can ba assigned for the fatality unless the horse stumbled and threw deceased, who was a steady man and and conversant with She country. There is no suspicion of foul play.

Wanganui, January 4. Henry Neville Maskelyne, aged 28, single, attempted suicide at a boardinghouse last night by cutting bis throat with a razor. He arrived in Wellington by the Oorinfchic on Boxing Day and came to Wanganui on New Year’s Eve and had been drinking heavily. He was removed to the hospital. His wound is not serious.