ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13500, 9 October 1911, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A WELLINGTON MYSTERY. Infant’s Body in a Parcel. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 9. According to a statement made by a Chinaman to the police, a parcel was found in the gateway of his house iii Plaining Street on Saturday night. He kicked it into .the gutter, and a neighbour, opening it, found that it contained the dead body of an infant. So far the mother has not been traced.

INQUEST. Wellington Child Abandonment Case. WELLINGTON, October 9. The Coroner opened an inquiry. to-day concerning the death of the infant, the body of which was found near a gate in ,Raining Street on Saturday night. The medical evidence showed that death was due to suffocation. In Dr I’yffe’s opinion —in fact, a strong one—it had been purposely suffocated. There .was a Chinese strain about the child. The inquiry was adjourned till the 30th.

PALMERSTON MYSTERY SOLVED. Missing Man’s Body Found. PALMERSTON N„ October 9. About six weeks ago an old settler named John Bogan, who resided on the Napier Road, about a mile from Ashhurst township, had been to town during the evening, and left at 1U p.ra. for home, but never reached there. The police subsequently took the matter in hand, and the mystery has now been solved by the finding of Bogan’s body in the Manawatu River, in the Gorge, about a mile from Ashhurst bridge. The bank at the point whore the body was found is very steep, and the river is about 30ft deep. An inquest will bp held to-day.

DISTRESSING SHOOTING FATALITY. CHRISTCHURCH, October 9. Arthur Edward James, a resident of Sydenham, died in the Hospital last night as the result of gunshot wounds received during the afternoon. James, with two companions named Kennard and Mather, was shooting hares near lurwco, 25 miles from Christchurch, when the accident occurred. Kennard was climbing over a gate, with his gun at full-cock. The gun went off, and the shot hit James, who was sitting by the roadside, in the head, arms, and chest, inflicting severe wounds. The injured man was brought back to Christchurch in the evening, and died after admission to the Hospital,

STREET FATALITY IN WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, October 9. George Drake, assistant clerk of works to the Harbour Board, mot with a fatal accident on Waterloo Quay to-day; ‘He was cycling along the street when be ran into a lorry laden with flax. One of the wheels of the lorry went over his chest, death being instantaneous. Deceased, wuo was 35 years of age, leaves a wife ami throe children.

SUDDEN v DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, October 9. Mr Malcolm Macfarlatic, of the Coldstream estate. North Canterbury, died rather suddenly on Saturday night. He was born in Wellington in 1819, and inherited Coldstream in 1884, on the death of lus father. He was a well-known and successful breeder of stock, and bad long been prominent in the local government of bis district.

A BOY KILLED. DANNEVIHKE, October 9. Charles Hunt, aged 9, son of a settler at Horocka, was killed yesterday. It is supposed deceased became entangled in a rope jittaclied to a horse in his'father’s paddock. He sustained a fracture of the base of the skull.

IDENTITY. AUCKLAND, October 9. The elderly man who dropped dead in the street on Saturday lias been identified as Major-General Hogg, who came here from England every year for the, trout fishing. DROWNING ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND, October 9. - A boy named Clarence Kennedy, aged 11, a sou of Mr Kennedy, a photographer at Huntly, was drowned in the river while swimming to-day.' SUICIDE. GISBORNE, October 9. William Sharp, aged 35, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor at Tokomaru Bay. He had been drinking heavily.