ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 85, 30 May 1911, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

FOUND DROWNED. By Tclegraph.—Preas Association. Auckland, Last Night. The body of a man was found in the Waitomo creek last night hy Messrs Forster and Challis, and has since been identified as that of John Cundy, a carpenter, of Otorohrtnga, who had been unwell for some time. FELL DOWN A SHIP’S HOLD. Invercargill, Last Night. Fred Taylor, a seaman on the Warrimoo, fell down the hold of that steamer at the Bluff to-day, and was taken to the hospital in a semi-conscious condition. SUICIDE AT TIMARU. Timaru, Last Night. John, ijobbcrns, aged 08, committed suicide on Sunday evening by shooting himself in the mouth with a small rifle in a shed on. his farm. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned. Deceased was formerly a commercial traveller. ACCIDENT ABOARD A STEAMER. Auckland' Last Night. James Raynes, relative of Captain O'Sullivan, of the Taniwha, met with a serious accident on hoard the steamer Daphne while lhat vessel was discharging cargo at Wark.worth this morning. Raynes was in the act of going down into the hold to sec how the work was progressing,, when the spindle in the derrick pulley-block broke, lotting down a. sling of five sacks of produce, which 'Struck Raynes in the region of the kidneys. lie hied profusely, and was examined hy the local doctor, who gave him a draught and had him sent to the Auckland hospital.