ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3139, 8 February 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

MAN POISONS HIMSELF

I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND, Fob. 7. Ernest Mason, a man aged 30, after taking lysol at his home, Newmarket, was found in bed at midday by his wife. The wife sent for a doctor, but Mason expired before the doctor arrived. There is no reason assigned for the occurrence. YOUNG WOMAN’S. SUICIDE. WANGANUI, Feb. 7.

A young married woman named Edlin. wife of a local tobacconist, committed siucide this morning, drinking a lotion prescribed for her -mother for an affection of the ear. Medical aid was quickly on the scene, but the- woman died a few minutes later. Deceased was 20 years of age, and left a child sixmonths old.

SUDDEN DEATH ON LAMBTON QUAY.

WELLINGTON, Fob. 7. Robert Phillips, aged 41, died suddenly in Lamb ton Quay this evening Papers found in his pocket indicated that he had been employed as pantryman on the steamer Mamina having left on January 27th. AN INQUEST. At the inquest on the body of William Jardine engine fitter, a verdict wsa returned that death was due to fatty degeneration of the heart. EXPLOSION OF GELIGNITE. Christopher iS’eymour, laborer, 31 years of age, had his hand and’ arm badly shattered an explosion of gelignite- at Ohariu Valley on Sunday. HE face and head were also injured. Seymour was out rabbiting, and had put a charge into a. burrow. Observing that it took a long time to explode, he went to investigate, and the charge blew off just as lie arrived. The man is now making fair progress at the hospital, but he may lose one of h;s hands.

FOUND DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 7

At the inquest at Little River regarding the death of Tristram A. Haydcm. a laborer,’ aged 43, a- verdict was returned that death wes due to drowning, but that there- was no evidence to show how the- body came into the water. Hayden was a stranger m the district, living on his wav to a situation at Rolmes Bay. He left the Forsyth Hotel sober, and'was seen lying on the edge of the river-hank. His body was found in the river adjacent to the spot where Jie was seen lying down.