ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 136, 1 August 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Invercargill, July 31. A fatal accident befel Edward Jones, aged 32, while following the Birchwood hunt adjacent to Lumsden township on Saturday. The horse stumbled while taking a fence. Jones clung to the reins, but fell heavily to the ground, fracturing his skull. Dr. Copeland, who was a spectator, happened to be standing within ten yards of the scene of the accident, and at once rushed to his assistance and rendered what aid was possible. He had Jones removed to his home, where he lingered until 7 a.m. on Sunday. Deceased was a son of Mr Edward Jones, butcher, Lumsden. Napier, July 31. The body of Captain Sivert Holland, of the lighter Moa, who had been missing since Wednesday last, was found in the inner harbour this afternoon, close to the wharf, where the Moa was usually moored. Auckland, July 31. . On the,,24th insjg, at the Avondale Mental Hospital named Johansen was working with another man, an Austrian, on the hospital farm, when he was attacked by his companion, and struck over the head with a spade. Johansen was badly hurt and was medically attended, but lie died to-day. Auckland, August 1. Mrs Mary Nelson, widow, aged 45 years, a resident of Mount Roskill, committed suicided by inhaling gas fumes. A nephew found her covered with a rug, her head on a pllow on the floor of the kitchen, there being evidence that she had used gastubing as an agency for self-destruc-tion and the rug to confine the fumes while she inhaled them. She had been in ill-health for some time. Wellington, August 1. At half-past four o’clock this morning a, well-dressed elderly man was found on Edinburgh Terrace, Newtown, with a terrible gash in his throat, from which he died twenty minutes later. A sharp-bladed pocket knife, bloodstained, was picked up a few yards away. The body has not been identified. A quarter of an hour before lie was found in extremis, ho accosted a man in the street, and then. appeared strange in manner.