DROWNING IT THE BLUFF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 26

DROWNING IT THE BLUFF.

RESCUER LOSES HIS LIFE. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) BLUFF, February 16. A \ery sad case of death by drowninjr occurred here this afternoon. Some lads were bathing inside th© wharf behind the freezing works, and one of them got beyond his depth and sank in 10ft of water. On the alarm being given a young: man named Jas. Spencer swam out to the rescue. He seemed to be caught by the drowning lad, and the further a arm that both were drowning was raised. Help being at hand, the young lad was rescued in an exhausted state, but was eventually brought round. When brought ashore Spencer's oaeo was seen to be hopeless. Nevertheless efforts at resuscitation were adopted and continued until Dr Torrance. who was by this time in attendance, pronounced life to be extinct Tho deceased, whose untimely end is much regretted, was a single man, belonging to a well-known family of Bluff residents, ramny ° INVERCARGILL) February 17. \t the inquest on Spencer, who was ' drowned at the Biuff when t)->inp to save the boy Buchanan, the jury found that he was drowned in an heroic effort to sa,v© life. No blame wa< attachable to anyone. The jury recommended tlia-t the lifo-«aving efforts of Daniel Johnson. Alfred Towney, and James Price be made known in the proper quarters for some fitting acknowledgment. It also recommended the erection of a notice board warning batherfl that the bpach is dangerous for bathing, a.nd that a lifebuoy be placed in a position convenient for U6e. An epidemic of chicken-pox i<- prevalent in Auckland just now, a larnc number of rases bpin;r recorded. In 'nme chsp= th» attack is pretty severe*. < ii'l a 'hilts havo suffered from the complaint, which u c uaj'» claims children as i1« vi-' : -a.