ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1658, 27 January 1913, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

■' ♦ YACHT CAPSIZES. YOUNG MAN DROWNED IN WANG if NUI RIVER. ; : . (By Telegraph,—Proas Association.) Wonflanul, January 2G. A yaohting adventure in tho river oft Saturday ■ evening cost a young ■ mau named W. G. liiown his life, l'out young fellows, naipcd William Smith, > Herbert Thom. 'I'im Cutfleld, ai>d Brown,, were returning to town alter a cruisi, when their yacht struck a snag and sank. All tho crew weroUn bathing costumo, Thorn and Cutiicld swam out to a con* ' yenient launch., Brown . became «n« m tangled in one of the stays of tho boat. Ho was freed by Smith, and though assisted, could not reach tho chore. Tho other twp stayed out on the launch! all night. , ■ "' Brown's body was found to-d«y. One leg \vas cut -where it had been entangled With the* wire rope. • • ' •... Brown, who is twenty-five years of age,'is ft clork for Messrs, Dalgety. and Co, Re is a son of Captain Bruwn, «t l'ripanui Road, Chrisichurch. . WASHED TO SEA. Timaru, January 20. ' A'seat,and an oar from ilia boat in which two men wero washed' to sea at li-angitaUi were found on tho beach. LAD AND PEA-RIFLE. > . Napier, January 25. , ' A lad named Murrow, who somo ago accidentally shot himself with a pea . rule, whilo .cleaning it, has died in tliq hospital. V