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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 939, 31 July 1871, Page 2

A nearly fatal accident by drowning took place at Black's Poiut, on the Inangahua, on the 25fch inst. A boy abo\it seven years of age, named Edward Kirby, a son of Mr E. V. Kirby, of that place, fell off Norman's foot bridge into the luaugahua, in which there was a fresh at the time. A storeman of Air Norman's, named Nicholas Lund, who witnessed the accident, plunged into the river aud rescued the child, after he hr»d been carried some two hundred yards down the stream. The little fellow is said to have struck out manfully, and seemed to think the ! whole affair was got up for his especial enjoymeut. We learn from the Wakalip Mail that on the ice at Silver Lake, Queenstown, two accidents took place. One was a severe fall to a miner (J. Malcolm, Moke Creek). In rushing after a skater he lost his footing, and a severe cut was the result on the left temple. The other sufferer was Mrs Coffee, who, when moving out of the way of a skater, fell on her arm, breaking her wrist. Considering the large number of people who were on the ice, the accidents have been very few. The other was a man named Walton, who tell on the ice at Halenstein's estate, Speargrass Flat, breaking his collar bone. Another accident happened on the same day to a miner at the Arrow, who had his ancle broken. {