FATALITIES

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1911, Page 3

FATALITIES

HEROISM OF TWO BOYS. •■' AUCKLAND, April 13. Further particulars have been received of the drowning of three Maories at Waikato Heads. Hori Whari Tamihana (18 years of age), Toha Whare Tamihana (13), and Hori Taro (12), were drowned and T.iki Whare Tamihana (15), was saved. It appears that the two girls were .fishing from a boat i nthe Waikato Hiver, and got into a strong current, with the result that they were" capsized in ' the sea on the bar. The two 'boys, seeing their difficulties, took a canoe and went to the rescue. They;fearlessly followed the girls over the bar and caught the other boat, making theirs fast to it. Both boats, however got into the breakers, and capsized, the whole four Maories being- taken out to sea. Mr. "W; Cobourne and Mr. E. Suargo, witnessing their plight, -put out quickly in another boat, but were unable ta render assistance. Some time after Mr Cobourne, from a point of vantage, saw a 'boat half a mile along the coast in the surf and proceeded thither. On arrival he found a girl and boy clinging to it, and, at great risk, he went breast-deep in the surf and saved the .girl .The boy wais struck by the boat on the forehead and sank. The boy and girl had been two hours in the water. Several people saw ithem carried over the bar, and speak of the heroism of the two schoolboys.

A young man named William Edward Robinson has, by endeavouring to evade tlie Customs law, paid somewhat dearly for a cloth for a 'billiard table. When he was brought before Mr. E. O. Outten," S.M:, at Auckland on Monday, the Collector of Customs, stated that last October the accused obtained the cloth from a fireman on the steamer Maheno, and bought the article ashore without attempting to notify the Customs. The actual value of the cloth was ;£5, and the duty payable was 50 per cent of the value. The accused made a state ment, admitting that he did not pay any duty. A (fine of ;£ls and cost's 7s was inflicted. Further in&tances of disaffection in the ranks of the railway service of the Dominion are quoted by the •Christchurch Press. At a general meeting of the Christchurch branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (says that paper), a com plaint was made that a certain employee had been appoinFed guard over the heads of 12 men, who, it was alleged, had better qualifications for such work. It' was also complained that an employee under suspension had Ibeen waiting, two months for information as To whether he was to be dismissed or reinstated.