ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12582, 20 January 1905, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

RAILWAY COLLISION AND LOSS OF- - , LIFE. if.'United Press .Electric ~ .'.■ Telegraph—Copyright.- , ' Received 12.52 January 20th: ' •" LONDON January 19^ 1/ Tie fov»tr>i tyaiflr j at Chudworth, -Yorkshire, seven persons De.ing killed and. 40. injured. Per PrtSo • Association. AUCKLAND, January 19. An elderly man named-W. Stephen Hujtchintf, representative of, the Australian Widows' Fund and-Xife. Assurance Society, committed suicide.by shooting himself at the Central' Hotel to-day. Although not a lodger there, he was frequently about the hotel, and went into a bathroom and shot himself. -He' was taken to the hospital, where after an operation he sue-' cum bed. For tKe past five months deceased, who was never known to drink, had been staying at the Salvation Army's People's *Palace, where it is stated he is behind with his, payments, and .asked and., was given time' in which to pay. - ..NAPIER, Janusuy 19. . At the inquest on the body of .Eunice Plowman, a verdict of found drowned, with aij evidence to show how -she got into the water, was returned'. . WANGANUIi January 19. A new, arrival from America "had a narrow escape from drowning to-day. He went for a swim at the heads, and -was. carried over the .bar- by.-the tide. Spectators on the shore thought the .man was drovyned, as-they lost, sigfit of hija half an hour. To the generafc Isurprisfc; however, the jhan appeared .'on' the.' south ■spit, having '-.been carrisd ashore by the breakers: and - the cnjrfent. -A boat wefitio his assistance, and brought him baek to the heads. .' CHRISTCHUR'CH, Japuary 19. The body of a. "man who had 1 apparently been dead some days was found this afteraeon in. the lons grass-in an unfrequented part"of Hagley .Part. A.revolver lay near, by, and there was a bullet wound in the body, which was identified as that of Arthur George White, a chimney sweep, \vho had been missing for some time. INTERCARGILL, January 19. The body of J, Ab'ey, a seaman who !eft- the Tokomaru at thel Bluff, was found in the harbour. ' He" was last seen walking down the wharf on the evening o! January 7th, and it is supposed that he accidentally fell into the harbour.