ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 916, 8 September 1910, Page 11

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

,"■■; A BOY DROWNED. : J'.:- ■'-'.' IBy'.Telesrspa.-l-resaAsßociatlua.i ' '■:-':■ . ,: : 'Napier,;September 7;, ."■ - ;.A boy, nine years'of age, son of; Mr. J.; !■>turrbek,, Borough Engineer, who recently., arrived from . Invercargill, -.-> was Playing on- the breakwater wharf on luesday afternoon;' arid' was left for a time .by his companions. When they returned'? young ' St'urroclt was /missing, and notrace , of him could be.fbund.'- ! A search '.party: , was/but all/night "without result, : but'. this ' morning-" another boy, named Lp Bas, while fishing' from the breakwater, found that the hook of, his line had got caught in something heavy, and on, pilllihg in the line,he, brought tho dead body, of the missing boy to the' surface. An., inquest will be held tomorrow..- '■:■ ■; ' ',/'. CITY OCCURRENCE. ~ A man named William Dryderi, aged about 55, residing at ,105 ' Ingestro btreet, was -foimd yesterday mb'rnirig :.with a •bullet wound.-in .his .forehead, and was removed from his lodging's to tile hospital. The bullet took no effect on,the,;bram, and an inquiry last night■ elicited the fact that tho patient: was progressing favourably./ He was' conscious, but--had.been unable te , give the police any explanation of the position.