ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9342, 11 January 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. Dunedin, January 10. A drowning accident occurred at Cape Saunders about 8 this morning, the victim being Walter Patterson, 30 years of age, whoso parents reside iu the city. Deceased ..and three companions wont to Gapt-i Saunders yesterday, and camped there overnight. While they werd fishing from the rocks to-day Patterson was washed away. A line was thrown to him, bnt it was not long enough to reach him. There was a very high sea running and at no time would it have been safe to launch a boat. The body has not yet been recovered.

Auckland, January 11.

A motorman named Taylor, while driving an electric oar from Onehunga to the oity, suddenly shrieked and falling, was thrown from the front of the car. He apparently had. a narrow escape of being electrocuted, the current having struck him through the controller. He suffered considerably, and is now far from well.

The dead body of an infant has been found on the water front. It was a newly-born male child, and was wrapped in a woman’s merino singlet and newspaper, besides an outer covering of brown paper. * Christchurch, January 11..

A child, 10 months old, the daughter of Sydenham parents, met her death in ah unusual way on Saturday evening. She was put to bed in a cot at 6.30, and the mother went into the kitchen. Later she found the child with her head nipped between two of the curved bars of the cot framing. The child had evidently put her head, through the bars and fallen and her nock was caught in the narrowing width and suffocation followed. An inquest was held yesterday, and a verdict of accidental death returned.

Wellington, January 11. Wiburg, a Swedish sailor, pleaded guilty to-day to attempting to commit suicide on the High Seas between Gisborne and Wellington. Accused had J.been drinking heavily and at 1.30 a.ro. on Friday Wiburg jumped into the sea, but was rescued. He was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.