ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

[United Press Association.}

Auckland, March 18. Ada Parsons, married, aged 36, v?hose husband is an invalid, when talking to two other women in the presence of her husband, suddenly took a revolver from her pocket and shot herself in the kit breast. The bullet penetrated about an inch above the heart. Mrs. Parsons was removed to the hospital. In a statement to the police she said: "Oh, I think everybody is against me, and I want to end it all." A fatal ronult is not expected. Waihi, March 18.

As a result of a charged hole unexpectedly exploding in the Grand Junction mine, a miner named T. White sustained terrible injuries. His condition is critical. His companion Ellery, received serious injuries to his face, and his body was struck by flying pieces of quartz

Wanganui, March 18. A sixteen-year-old student of the Boys' College named Patrick Gordon, whose parents reside at Hastings, was found dead in a paddock at PutiM this afternoon, with a pea-rifle bullet wound in his head. The deceased, who had been suffering from nervous depression, from which, however, he appeared to have recovered, purchased the pearifle yesterday. Westport, March 18. Word has reached Westport that a iad named Henderson, about 7 years of age, got into a boat at Mokihintu, Jet go the painter, and drifted out to sea. Search was made for three miles along the shore on either side of the river but no sign of boat or lad was

found