ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 124, 27 May 1903, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PER PEKSS A.SBOCIATTOH. Adocuvd, Hay 25. i Bat] man H. Oarroll, ooak on tha coastal steamer Akarana, waalost over* biard off Tutekaka. A bo*t waa launched but the search was frui-leae. John Big.dow, who was injured by a f»ll iato the Oilliope Dock, died in tha hospital. [Deceased was for many ysirs sap»r« inreadentcf the Northern Steunthip Company's fbefc, It aoimi hi wu superintending thedookingof the a* Wakatere whan he overbalanoed Miff-" 1 : self and fell to the bottom of the dodk ( a distanoe of 36 feat, sustaining sash severe injuiit>s thit he suooumbe! a few hours after. Mr Bigelow had (or many years occupied a responsible position in the Northern Bteamship Company's service, and wu held in very high esteem in abippiog and mercantile oircles ia the northern city, A fear months ba?k he auooeaded m ri floating the Kanieri when aha Waa a'randed on tbe Waitara beach, and was more recently here in New Plymouth ia oonneotion with tbe loaa of the GdiWoah. Mr Bigelow, of the looil branch of Messrs Sargood, Sin, and Ewen, is a son of the decetsed gentle nan, and haa our sympathy in his auldea bireave* meat,]