ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 110, 27 May 1901, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FEB PBESB ASSOCIATION. ] CiißisTcnuacH, May 24. James lewin, of Lyt'eiton, son of Mr. Lewin, of the Haibour Board s'au", is missing. His hat and a revolver, with one chamber empty, have been Lurd on tlo tdge < f a cl'ff off the Sumner Road. It is feared he shot himself and then threw himself over the cliff.

May 26. A woman named Elizabeth Moo> e, agod 28, living with William Eastwick, a cabman, at Sydenham, was found dead in the house yesterday afternoon. E»stwick left home in the mowing, and cm returning found the woman I dead in a pool of blood. An examination showed de'jth was caused by bleeding from the womb, Auckland, May 24. A boat accident occurred to day in tha harbour. A boy in a boat by himself lost an oir and stood up to attract attention, and in doing so capsized the bo it. ~The accident was seen from the shore and some people put out to the re-cue but could find no sign of tha boy, whose name is unknown at present, j Wellington, May 25. i The mili'ary fports held by Heretaung* Mouuted Riflbs closed abruptly yesterday owing to on« of tho competitions, a chase after a supposed B.er, ciused injury to.the spectator?. A. trooper whe caught the Boer seized the hrrse's rein and swetved up a bank among the cowd, with the resuh that two boys were knocked down and badly bruis d. Oae had to bi tikento the h>spi v »), but his injuries were not *eriou". Napier, May 25. An inquest w.,s held to-day on a m.n named Mi'.hael Co<k!ey, who died from injuries received at Pake'api. tie was driving a team of horses attachel to a; farm' ro'ler, at.d it ''s surraifed the ho sss' Oiakliy falling backward*, atid fracturing his skull. A verdict of aceid-nfal" t'ea h was returned.