ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Southland Times, Issue 14632, 24 January 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, Jan. 23. A man named Duke has been found dead at Oberon. He carried a pea-rifle In his swag, and apparently when ha put the swag clown the concussion exploded a cartridge. (Per United Press Association). AUCKLAND, Jan. 23. Arthur John Blackhouse, a young man, while bathing with two others in a creek at 'Taupaki suddenly sank. His body was recovered, but life was extinct. Elsie Howe, 14 years, residing Avondale, was thrown from a horsy and sustained a fracture of the She is now in the hospital in a critic* ■ condition. NAPIER. Jan. 23. A fatal accident occurred on the Mar hie Parade beach at 6.15 this evening, when a married man, a tailor’s cutter, named S. M. Clapham, wont in to bathe, lie was in the water not more than three minutes when it was seen that ha was incapacitated. An incoming wave brought the unconscious man ashore before would-be rescuers had time to reach the surf. Restorative measures wore applied immediately and continued for four hours with the aid of ambulance workers and two doctors, but without consciousness returning. It is supposed that dealli was partly due to heart failure. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 23. The police were informed this afternoon that Mr Arthur Calcott, who has been for some years an officer of the Agricultural Department, and who has recently been acting as chief clerk of the Christchurch office of the Department, had died suddenly at, his residence. Durham street, St. Albans,under circumstances suggesting suicide. Dr Goulburn Gibson was called in by Mr Oalcott’s family, but could do nothing, Mr Calcott expiring shortly after the doctor's arrival. At an inquest this evening the verdict was suicide while of unsound mind. A steerage passenger named Archibald Rusha, who joined the Warrimoo at Hobart, was found on arrival at Bluff yesterday morning to be in a> state of collapse. He had taken no sustenance on the voyage, and was too far gone to give an account of himself. Arrangements were made for his removal to Invercargill Hospital, but before he could reach there he succumbed to his weakness. His effects were left in charge of the U.S.S. Co. at Bluff pending information as to his friends. The Coroner has ordered a post mortem.