ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

j NEARLY DROWNED. ■ ACCIDENT IN 'BOAT HARBOUR. At about 11, a.m. an nSturday ft 4-year-old boy named Albert Bowen, who had strayed. from his mother's shop across the street, slipped off * tlio concrete hard into tlio Boat Harbour. It is understood that tho accident was not scen i immediately, but 011 tho alarm being raided, Mr. M'lirido, oustodian of tho Boat Harbour, at onco plunged in nnd» i pot tlio littlo fellow n-yioro. By the timo that, tho rcv=c,uo had 1 been effected'• tli« boy was all but (rono, but "first-nid" mi(T. artificial respiration were at 01160 tried by Mr. M'Bridc, and partial restoration was effected, when tho lad (raw signs of going off again, but eventually respiration was restored, ahd tlio boy vros wrapped in a blanket jtud sent homo.' ■ This is not tho first, occasion by many in wluch children: free of controMiavo got' into difficulties at ' tlio Boat Harbour by venturing too near tlio water's odgo on tho _ concrete which, below higli water marlc, is sHf-pery with eoa-nioss. LITTLE GIRL SHOT. Whilo h littlo son of Mr. Alex. Cnnipion, of Waikanae, was handling'a loaded gun on Friday afternoon at exploded, the chargo entering the side of his ten-year-old lister, and killing hori almost immediately, . '