Accidents and Fatalities

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 77, 4 January 1887, Page 3

Accidents and Fatalities

(PER UNITEP PRISS ASSOCIATION) January 2. William Kiclu cook of the schooner Torca, whs drowned lie went aboard at 3 o'clock <m New Ye.u-'s morning, an I it it believed foil overboard. He was under the influence of liq'KT. His Excellent-.) the Governor states that he has received no official communication relative to his rumoured transfer to Mauritius. He knows nctliing further limn has been published by cable message. ! TnrA.HU, January 2. i A distressing faial l>out accident ha pa pened here on New Tear's Day. A party of seven young men vrem out sailing and had just got clear of the breakwater when the boat capsized. A stiff S.W. yak* was blowing at the time. One man named Berrell got drowned. The others were snved witii difficulty by the Harbor Board's boat. Dunedin, January 2. On the return trip of the Tekapo from Oamaru, one of the passengers, whose name is unknown, went up the riggin>j:, and was skylarking, when he fell overboard and was drowned. This Day. Jon ath an Gold ing, a bootmaker, was found dead in a paddock at Milton yes« terday from it is supposed aooplexy. Wanganbt. January 3. A boy, aged 14 years, was drowned here on Saturday while bathing. While searching for his body another body of a boy was found, and cannot be identified. The other body is not y«t found. Continuation of reading matter on itTipage