ACCIDENTS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 195, 23 January 1875, Page 2

ACCIDENTS.

LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT SUMNER. Neither of the missing bodies were found up to this morning, though the beach had been closely watched all day. ACCIDENT IN THE WAITAKI. A man, whose name has not transpired, met with an accident at the Waitangi on Monday, which nearly proved fatal to him. He was journeying from the South towards Waimate, where he lived, and, upon arriving at the river, the ferryman took his horse across behind hisboat, and the traveller started to walk over the girders of the bridge, carrying his saddle on his head. When about three parts of the way over the bridge he slipped and fell into the water. He was immediately carried away by the stream, and would have been drowned had not some person rescued him after having drifted about 400 yards. When picked up the man was insensible.— Herald. THE LATE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT AKAROA. Several ineffectual attempts were made last week by the steam-launch and Messrs Sims and Lambert’s cutters to raise the illfated Ripple. She lay about a quarter of a mile from the shore in eighteen feet of water, but although chains were passed under her keel, the boats employed had not sufficient power to raise her out of the mud in which she was embedded. On Saturday morning the services of the schooner Reward were put into requisition, and after a hard day’s work the Ripple was successfully raised, and brought to the jetty at 11 p.m. Her masts and rigging have been quite destroyed in the efforts made to raise her. but otherwise she has not received much injury. A subscription is being made in the district to erect a memorial window in St Peter’s Church, to the memory of Messrs Nalder and Sayle. Both these gentlemen were much respected, and their loss is deeply lamented by the whole community. On Sunday there were special funeral services in St Peter’s Church, at Matins, and Evensong. Both of the deceased had been members of the choir, and the last tribute of respect to their memory was heartily rendered. The altar was covered with a purple altar cloth, and all the Christmas decorations removed. At 9 a.m. the usual Morning Prayers were said, and the service at 10.30 a.m. began with the office for the burial of the dead ; and after the lesson hymn 191, “ Christ will gather in His own,” was sung, and at the end of the service hymn 309, “ Fierce raged the tempest o’er the deep.” The Communion service was then proceeded with; before the sermon hymn 221, “Day of wrath, O day of mourning,” was very beautifully sung. The sermon was preached by the Rev W. H. Cooper, from a passage in the burial service —“ In the midst of life we are in death.” At Evensong the hymns were No 332, “ A few more years shall roll,” No 163, “ When our heads are bowed with woe ; ” and at the close No 375, “ Days and moments quickly flying. The services were most solemn and impressive. We are requested to say that any persons wishing to contribute to the memorial window can send their subscriptions to the Rev W. Henry Cooper, incumbent of Akaroa, or to Messrs S. Watkins and A. Westenra, churchwardens.