ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12906, 21 February 1906, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Per Press Association • ; ? ":. THAAIES, February 20. William McKenzie, aged 50 years, a resident ot Miranda, who is staying here temporarily, attempted to commit suicide this morning ; by cutting- his throat. The man was under medical treatment, and in a fit of despondency lie gashed bis throat with. a penknife. He wits conveyed to the Thames Hospital, where he-Hex in a critical condition. ]' WELLIXUTOX. February 20. A young man named William Boyce. who was employed at Luke's foundry, was cycling in Courten.iy pace when he collided with another cyclist. Boyce was removed to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries early this morning. CHRISTCHURCH. February' 20, Two young men named Arthur Rcjjl *nd W. Stevenson, were drowned h> Lake" Eliesmefe this afternoon. "" OAMAUIV February 20. Two fishermen, whose names 3i;ive not yet been ascertained here, were blown away from Moeraki on Monday. A heavy southerly squall came on, and an oil launch took

one man oil few boat which wan left aadiored. Another bust, with «ne man cm bwind. ran before the wind and warn beached, the occupant- gelling a*hore, but nothing has been beard of a third boat with two men in it, and it i* improbable that the boat could Dive in uuca. a. sea, as has been running «nce ye*tenday.

INVERGARGILL, Februarr 2D.

Leigh's Creek correspondent of the Melbourne "Ago" report.* that A. M, Smith who shoh himself at Oodnodatta a couple of weelfs ago. was the *on of an English clergyman, and none other than the famou* Do Rougemont. who brought, himself into prominence by publishing in the "Wide World Magazine" fictitious adventure* in Australia, and the .South Sea*. He recently left Adelaide, bavicg jeeeived a. commission to go to Tarcoola. in search of material for another journalistic venture. His fund* ar& believed to have run out at Oodnadatta, and bis English remittances were late.