ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 144, 10 August 1911, Page 6

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

•.(per Press Association.) Timaru, August 9. The police received word from a station near Geraldine this morning that Idled. Burrows, aged 10, was ;■ missing. He was a native of Dunedin. Search parties are out. ■ WaiL'i, August 9. Robert Sims, the local librarian, was found drowned this morning in a Shallow creek, two feet deep. .Deceased, who was seventy years of age, ■ left a note asking a Iriend to open the library. Christchurch, August 9. Alfred Bradley, a plumber hy trade, died in the hospital to-day as the re- ■ suit of injuries received on Monday, i De was riding a motor cycle when he , collided with a trap and was thrown heavily. He sustained concussion of the brain. Wanganui, August 9. The dangers and privations incidental to bushfelling in the backblocks were exemplified to-day. While working in the Anualui block, inland from the Wanganui River, a young man named Frank Williamson was jammed between two trees on a stoop siding and broke a leg. The sufferer was placed on a horse-pack at !) o’clock this morning, and canned several miles over a rough crack. He was thou put on a stretcher and carried by his mates to the river, where they arrived, at. 5 p.m. This afternoon a special steamer brought him down to the hospital, which was reached at 11 p.m. Auckland, August 19. A dead body found in some scrub with a lysol bottle alongside has been identified as that of Daniel Condon, porter at the hospital, aged 50 years, who had boon missing two months. y OBITUARY. MU. G. ITS OH. MAYOR OF NEW PLYMOUTH. (Per Press Association.) New Plymouth, August 10. Mr Tisch, Mayor of New Plymouth, who underwent a serious operation twelve days ago, and had pi agi eared fairly well, had a relapse early" this morning, and passed away about 9 o’clock, aged 158 years. Mr. Tisch entered the licensed victuallers’ trade many years ago, keeping a hotel at Mangawera, near Elfliam, for about eight years, when the locality was made busy by the presence ot a big sawmill. About 1880 ne came to Stratford and was tho first licensee of flic Stratford Hotel, which was an old building on the site of the present hotel. After holding the license for about three years, lie removed to New Plymouth, where lie took over the license of tire 'Terminus Hotel, which was then called the Beach House. In this house he remained about fifteen years, then refiling from business, and devoting himself to -public life. For a number of years ho was chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board, and for the pact five years or so lie had been Mayor of New Plymouth. Recently ho stood for Pailiamont, but was not returned. Mr Tisch was a publicspirited citizen whose loss will be greatly felt in New Plymouth. Largely owing to ids personal efforts the esplanades towards tho breakwater and towards the Henni were made, md he was instrumental in getting tho memorial erected recently to old settlers at Moturoa.