ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

THREE LIVES LOST. (Per Press Association.) I ■ ■ i . Wellington, February 28. 1 A distressing drowning accident ocI currcd at Seatoun to-day, as the re- | suit of which W. M. Ham, an employee of the gas works, with his j wife and child aged four years, lost j their lives. The three, with a friend, Richard Potter, were fishing from a twelve foot boat near Pinnacle Rock. They decided to move to fresh fishing ground, and while Potter was hauling up the anchor, the boat capsized. Potter and Hams got Mrs Ham and the child on to the upturned craft, j hut after a few minutes they slipped off and were not seen agiin alive. ! Ham tried to make for the rocks, but sank. Potter managed to keep afloat, until picked up by a boat from the steamer Patcena, which was passing l . Ho was put ashore in an unconscious condition, and after half an hour’s strenuous exertion was brought rund by Dr. Herbert. The bodies of Mrs ! Ham and child have been recovered. ; but there is no sign of Ham’s. A BOY DROWNED. Dunedin, February 28. A boy named Vincent Park, aged 7 years and 9 months, was drowned at Ravensbourne to-day. Deceased and his little brother aged 4 years, were playing on the landing steps at the wharf, and the former fell into the water. The younger brother says ho told two men about the accident, but apparently he failed to make himself understood. Search for the body was unsuccessful. Writes the Waitara correspondent of the Taranaki Herald : Mr C. Holdswich had the misfortune to meet with another accident while working on the new bridge. Mr Holdswich has met with two accidents previous to this one since the erection of the bridge was started. In the first his hand was badly crushed, and secondly he received a broken arm, and thirdly he h.as had two fingers drawn into a block and badly crushed. Mr Holdswich is no doubt having more than his share. Mrs Holdswich, who was bitten by a katipo spider last week, is progressing favourably and is now at her home.