ACCIDENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14151, 10 March 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS.

INFANTICIDE. Per Press Association. ■ - HAMILTON, March 9. The dead body of a newly-born child was found in. a clump of fern at Waotu. It is supposed to be the infant of a servant girl. The child was born on Friday in a paddock adjoining the farm where the girl worked. The post mortem examination proved that the child had lived. There was no apparent marks of violence. HEART FAILURE. WELLINGTON, March 9. Mr H. Carstens, aged 72, of Melbourne, who arrived oil a visit to his daughter, died of heart failure four hours' after arrival. DETERMINED SUICIDE. Mang Goo a Chinaman aged 4S years, a market gardener from Nelson, hanged himself this morning from a tree at the back of the premises of No. 24, Haining street. He had been staying with Joe, Queen who last saw him alive at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, when Mang Goo hade him good night. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. CHRISTCHURCH. March 10. A middle-aged man named John Whelan, who was grass seeding on the Peninsula, disappeared in January and has not been seen since. Lately a coat and waistcoat belonging to him were found on the banks of a creek in Okain's bay and police investigations have revealed the fact that Whelan's behaviour was so peculiar that he had to be restrained. He left the camp saying that he intended to go to Lyttelton. but later the same day he turned up at another camp apparently in a state of extreme exhaustion. When last seen he was staggering along the top of the high cliffs above the sea and the belief is entertained that Whelan fell into the sea. He is said to have relatives in Tasmania.