ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2756, 10 March 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

HJiAKT FAILURE. |Tmi Press Association.! WELLINGTON, March 7. A man named ... Carstens, aged 7-. of Melbourne, who arrived here to-day hv tlie Ulimaroa, on a vist to his daughter, died of heart failure four 1 :ours after arrival.

SICK CHINAMAN HANGS HI A 1 SELF.

Nang Goo, a Chinaman, aged 48 years, a market gardener from Nelson, hanged himself this morning a tree at the hack of premises No. *24, Raining Street- He had been staying ■with Joe Queen, who last eaw him alive at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, when Nang Goo bade him good night. He did not hear the deceased get up during the night. They were sleeping in the same room, and on going into ill is back yard at 5.30 a.m. this morning Queen saw Nang Goo suspended by a rope from u "broe four f-cefc from ■fclio ground. He severed the rope, hut life was extinct. Nang Goo had been in ill health for some time. He came over from Nelson to bid .good-bye to one of his country men, who was leaving for China. 'He had been 32 vears in New Zealand. In Nang Goo s ooekets were found a pawn ticket for t'-l .(for his watch) and 3s 9d, and a return ticket to Nelson. Air H'aselden, e> -yl ~ 3ield an inquest, a- verdict of ' suicide by his own hand” being returned.