ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A COMMENDABLE RESCUE. The Dominion's .Masterton. correspondent • reports that alad named Stinson hacf anarv' : . r '.! row escape from drowning in the AVaipoua ' River on.Monday.. Hg was seated, fullj" - :dressed,' on a spring-board,' which .'stretcKoi? t . j over...the/W&ipoua , River, close, to its junc-;:! - ' tion .with the.Rudmahurigi River. . Losing , his' balance,, he fell into, the water, and was being carried by the current to the Ruania- : ? hunga. Tho water was deep, and the.current '.' i" strong,, and the boywasm.imminent'danger . . of being carried .away into more' rapid and •. deeper waters,.;when his screams attracted the attention. of .Mr.. Joe Arthur^' 1 jvlio, for- 1 ' 1 tunately, happened to" bis fishing;, fin . the; T; vicinity. . The. latter .lost .no time,-jjn getting' . ; 2*' in after the boy, ' and brought, liifa to' the bank ' iri a rather exhausted state: ■ HEART FAILURE.' Chrlstohuroh, January 5. : George.Frederick Bctteridge, aixty years, of., .. age, bricklayer, died: suddenly' V.of heart'. ' failure this, morning at". SyjdenJam... VAt-the _inquest held ; tbis .afternoon; by -Sir.".. H. W.,- Bishop, District Coroner, the. verdict was that death was dua tofheart disease. "PROGRESSING FAVOURABLY." The hospital authorities advised last night . that, the young man, Peter Hume, who was • admitted to the Institution;.pbout;,three - ■ weeks ago suffering from a gunshot wound ' in the head, and who was' in a critical condition for a couple of weeks, is now progressing very satisfactorily; towards recovery. ' : N