ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 416, 27 January 1909, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

LADY DROWNED IN GISBORNE BATHS. I A PATHETIC SCENE. I -.(BT-TELEGEAPH—PREBS/iSSOCIiTION.)- ■ -■■■■.* Glsborne, January 26. ■ ..Dora .Griffin, aged' 22, . second- daughter of the Eev. Mr. Griffin, Wesleyan. ' minister, : Gisborney:was drowned m. tho. school baths at_ midday.-. Deceased, who was a. splendid swimmer, had .only been, in"thfewater-for; a few moments, when her elder sister observed her. in She rushed to. tho rescue,but. the girl had sunk. The elder' sister made; frantic attempts to • rescue • herj and got into difficulties'herself.'.Mrs.- Griffin; mother -of the girls,;, who' had ■ just left • the baths,; hearing the .6creaMs,''Vtfshea r 'b'ack ; and. plunged in with all her clothes "on, and was found struggling a 'few,■minutes''later by two young-men who had. been attractedi 'to the scene by/the screams. Mrs., Griffin andVtlra elder 'daughter were assisted out of the- bath, and a few-minutes later the body of deceasedwas recovered. ■ • " '. '.'."I . '■ ■ DROWNED WHILE FISHING. I (BI TkLEGttiPfl— riIESS ASSOCIATION.) : Aucklandi January 26. A drowning; accident happened at Onehunga this afternoon, whereby an ,elderly -' man named Littler lost his life', appears that it was-his -'custom to' take,a .small boat and, 1 go out fishing-- in the harbour periodically. He nirod a boa,t this morning; ..' and \ dropped anchor above the Mangere Bridge; where ho was seen .fishing: for. a lorig-time. : . : .Not far away, ;■ a man- named Jones was fishing- from an oil launch, and he had noticed Littler in the-dinghy'at variou's times:;,, After attending l to his line for a while he looked .round, and | failed i.to 'i see';, any ,trace of the occupant', of the; other, boat. ,He 'immediately, went alongside, -and found , the boat .was 'empty.--,> 'Jones anxiously scanned the surface of - the:' water, and.made;out : what he'took tp'be-:the Body of old-man,-but, it sank immediately.; .The deceased, was ,70 years of age, -and was an old soldier, - having - belonged to : ;thej. 65th ; Regiment. He lived at Slangere, and leaves a widow.and grown-up family.-.. "EELL ON A CIRCULAR SAW." > A labourer named Richard- Love, residing m Argyle Street,. fell on a circular saw yesterday and cut bis hand so severely, that -he tad to be removed to the -hospital A FALL OP CLAY. A young man named. Fred . Holland, -residing iri Mein ■ Street,. was admitted to the hospital last night; suffering from injuries to thp head , caused, by a. fall; of ,clay, during the oourso of; tome exoarating;-work at Hataitai.' '': THE KATIPO. '' katipo - spider..'is . very . much .'.in,-'.evi-dence-'in- certain parts. beach,' and- the,,,other- morning a young man was sov©rely bitten on the; lower,; eyelid by oh© of; this yenomoii.s, : species. I ',; THaiis,, to ;.the-, quick .. of -ammonia, applied by. a lady resident' per . medium';'of a needle; no ' very serious results are ianticipatedi ■ V.