ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14160, 26 April 1916, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.

A middle-aged 'man named Jack Stapleton.was killed on the railway line at Feilding. Allan Waugh, aged H, son of Mr James Waugh, farmer, of Wangaloa, Otago, was killed by his head being crushed between, the shaft of a dray and a stable. The body of a native named Simon H&dfield was found on the beach at Whangaimoana. It i.s .surmised that the deceased, who was 43 years of age, met his death by drowning while returning home across the outlet to Lake Wairarapa. A horrible sight confronted Philip Wells, a barman, employed at the Canterbury Hotel, Lyttelton, on Saturday morning, when, failing to receive any response to his knocks, lie entered tho room occupied by Peter Little, a porter in tho same establishment, and found him lying on the floor with his throat cut, and a. razor beside him. Little was a single ina>i, 43 years of age,.