ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13660, 31 July 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

THE CHINA TYPHOON.

flress Assoclation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, July 29. ■ Advices from Hongkong. ,state that thousands of Chinese were drowned in the recent typhoon, and that hundreds of native boats were wrecked.

Per Press ■: Association.

FEILDING, July 30

Playing in a friendly football match yesterday between . teams representing the Feilding and Palmerston North ,Postal officials, E. A. Garlick, of Feilding, had his right leg broken just above the ankle. The ground' was slippery, and Garlick. fell with a couple of 'Others ou top of him..

) . : DUNEDIN, July 30. Mary Ulack, a housemaid at the hospital,- died suddenly- late on Tuesday night. She was • laughing and joking with tihe otlier employees when she suddenly fell and expired. A post moitem. examination showed that' death caused- by. functional derangement of ■ the heart's action. • 1

May Fitzsiiinnons Mathteon, a tingle woman, aged 27, living \\ith.a inan,.,named Charles Shaw,: died when getting out .o» -bed this morning.

rINVERCAEGILL, July 30.

An inquest-wis held to-day on the body -of James- Haflcock who shot, himself at Hapuka yesterday. The evidence indicated that, a. nail had been driven- into the •table in deceased's - waare and,that.after alingning- the gun ■ with ; a cartridge, .caae wedded between 'the .triggers he discharged it by. pulling the fore trigger against the nail,- - blowing- his-. head ■ to- fragments. Deceased was- 35 years 'of age and bad a (brother' in the Noj tli Island. Experiments ■Willi liis- electric weed«eradicator. had bepn Very successful.' Deceased had -told a man wMi whom-he had. liis .meals that^ he had seen ■ a'■ doctor * who had - given Mm only 1 three mont hs- to live. * He had a. bad leg ;and ,: walked ] with '■ a: limp, the result-of an accident. ' A. verdietvof suicide ■,while temporarily insane 'wasi returned. .. -