ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13953, 13 July 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

A VAIN SEA.UCH. Tor Press Association. HASTINGS, July I'2. Thirtv volunteers \amly for the butlv of aman.,.Urowi)ed ui the Tukitukf river on the previous Sunday. Tliev traversed 18 miles of river Irom foru* to sea. There is every reason to believe that the victim! is Neil iJuucaii, who has not, been heard of since the fatality was reported. A MUSTEREK .LOST. • WELLINGTON, July V2. Hu-h Cockrill, aged 2:2, who .was niusf'M-iim cattle in the Otaki Gorjie on Fridav, in company with- another .-mn, is lost. The police and 100 settlers have been . searching for. him, without result., The man 'is delicate. \hN SMOTHERED. SannH Klsmore, a widower, ajiod 54. of Grovetown, Blenheim, was found smothered in a ditch near his house .yesterday. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. ASTiniiHTON. Jnlv l'-\ ,M the inquest on the body ofAKrod Mealey. the victim of the «un acridenf ;>t Sf-vel'-v, a verdi'-*- w:>s returned lhat Healey accidentally shot himself with a {run. no blame being attachable to aoyone. An acci'l'-ut of apceujiiir kind lnn-•i-t'cd on on Sunday ivffernnon. <■■■■•■ A v down +Jir> bi'l ran-', into ':. h"n ijirich was.crossiiiV' , .tli'o : 'st!'eet. and the ■fi'"i "ot cnu,gli't;i'r,'i , 'i'<'r..fi:bnt'whnol. and killed, •' v :; < >'■ strewn with feathers for s'oinn.'distance: The saddest oart 'of ■' t,li,q,sf|oi;.j- : ...iSv thai the< '•nirr nf, tl)p:heii declared that it was