ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5, 12 May 1913, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

BODY RECOVERED. [Per Press Association. ] Invercargill, Ma yll. The body of Frank Peterson, the prisoner who w'as drowned in the Estuary. Friday afternoon, was recbvered on Saturday. • • i AN OLD WOMAN’S DEATH. Wellington, May 11. Jane Hall', aged 76, an inmate of the iHome for?the Aged and Needy, died on Friday night. She had had a paralytic stroke some time ago, 'find another on Friday, but had recovered from this some hours before death occurred. The medical officer of the Home w r as not prepared to give a certificate, an inquest will be necessary. | 2

A plucky rescue was effected by the third officer of the mail steamer Maori (Mr Erwin) at Lyttelton on Thursday night. A. young lady was on the 'wharf talking to her sister, who was leaving for Wellington, and as the steamer swung out from the wharf, the lady handed up an umbrella to her sister. Whether the one or the other held on to it too long is not clear, hut the upshot was that the lady on the wh.trf fell in. The Maori’s propellers were churning the water into foam at the time, and whete the young la'dy fell whs well towards the sterh of the ship. Mr Erwin did not wait longer than to fling off his cap, and he dived into the seething waters and rescued the lady, holding her up until she could be take out. He was numbed when taken out himself, the night being bitterly cold. It was very dark at the time, too, riiabig the work of rescue even more hazardous because of the proxiihity of the propellers in motion.