ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

West Coast Times, 22 March 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[BY TELEGRAPH— PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WANGANUI, March 21. The body of a young woman named Sutton, who has been missing since Tuesday, was found floating in the river this morning. LATER. At the inquest on the body of Miss Sutton, whose body was found in the river this morning, a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. AUCKLAND, March 21. The circumstances surrounding the disapoarance of a man named Frank Hill, aged 40, who was last .seen aboard the yacht Katie at Mechanics Bay, Parnell on Saturday forenoon point to the probability of a drowning fatality. He boarded the yacht on Saturday to proceed to Mareiti, 16 miles from Auckland for a cargo of explosives. Hodson, the owner of the yacht, hearing that the craft was still at anchor 400 yards from Wynward Pier went out to ascertain from Hill the cause of the delay in starting. The only traces that could bo found of Hill were his coat and pipe. Hodson states when he last saw Hil lon hoard the yacht he was hauling in the cable chains and ho fears he must have slipped overboard. The water at the anchorage is 11 feet deep. INVERCARGILL, March 21.

Ja-s. Miller, a well-known farmer of the Mossburn district, was thrown from his horse on Thursday last and died in the Riverton Hospital on Sunday. An inquest is to be held. DUNEDIN, March 19. A boy named Geoffrey Fisher, aged 11 years, was accidentally shot by another b,,y at Middlomarch last night. The weapon was a pea rifle, and tho bullet pierced Fisher’s abdomen, inflicting a serious wound. The lad was brought into the Dunedin Hospital. TWO SUDDEN DEATHS, THAMES, March 21.—Two sudden deaths occurred, here to-day. Peter Harvey Curtis, an old age pensioner, was found dead in a room of his house at Karaka Creek at noon to-day. In tlm afternoon, John Mclsaacs, aged 55. reading a paper in the Lady Bowen Hotel, wbp ll b<? .suddenly collapsed. Assistance was veuderer} bpt- the man was dead,