ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2080, 15 May 1907, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Press Association. t AUCKLAND, yesterday. ' ' Captain Swanson was found dead. • in lus bunk on tho scow AVakinini,, -tj. anchored oif Bowentoivn. There is no further information. A - Annie McDougall, 20 years of age, • f ' had a terrible experience at Aivaroa, where she was residing with her un- ' cle. She left the house on Thursday night, clothed in ordinary garments, \ . ancl as she failed te return on H riday search parties scoured the country. Miss McDougall was found bedraggled, hungry, and almost demented, two miles from 'home. She had cros- * sed a creek fairly wide and deep, but could not explain how she did so. " Siio is suffering from the shock, which it is feared may leave serious results.

The inquest on Minnie Kitchen, who died soiucivhat suddenly on Sunday, was adjourned after evidence of identification had been taken. Dr. Purdy, district health olticor, stated it was neither advisable nor desirable the jury should view, tho body? I'EILDINQ, yesterday. -- llio body of John AVilsok Welsh, aged 25, missing from his uncle’s te house at Kimbolton since tho 9th, was found in Coal Creek, the' legs being tied together with a stirrup jieatlier taken from a saddle on the horse lie 'liad been riding, while the bridle-rein was wound round his*' arms. Evidently it ivas a case of determined suicide, though no reason is assigned why he should take his life. He ivas at a social the lljglit before he ivas missed, aiuj is not known to have had any'trouble. Deceased only arrived from England last winter.

CARTERTON, yesterday. AYallace .Smith, about 70, fell from a horse at Papaivai Creek and ivas - drowned. Deceased ivas a son of Captain Smith, 11. A., who came out lor the New Zealand Land Comi'an.! ■ and was the first SurveyorGeneral of tho colony, and was con- * iiccted with early South AVairarapa settlement. 1

i,...,. BLENHEIM, yesterday. AA ill lam Preston, aged 27 <eais whoso mother and sisters resile at Blenheim, has been missing since llmrsday at noon. He went out w'th a bicycle and gun, intending to go duck-shooting on the lagoon. Search parties have been out since Saturdav and no trace of the man, bicycle, or {=>uii has- been found, ltr is as possibles that Preston changed his mind and rode south.

WELLINGTON, last night. A man, about 40 years of age, Malted into a timber yard in the city to-day, and sitting down died in a lew minutes from heart failuro. His ;clotluiig was of the kind usually Morn by seafaring men. Oil tlio uouy was found a discharge from tho steamer Ruapehu, made out in the name of Albert Hillier.