ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 50, 18 February 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A HERO'S SAD END. 'i. ' Per Preso Association. Invercargil, Last Night. James Spencer, aged 23, was drowneql at the Bluff on Saturday, in cndeavoting to save Geoffrey Buchanan, agcil about 12. Buchanan got out of his depth* ami called for help. A man went in but bould not swim, and failed to reach the hul. Spencer went in after the boy, who j clutched him round the neck. Both 1 went down, but Only Buchanan came up. A fireman from the s.s. Orari dived and recovered Spencer's bodv, Iml too late. ' i

Later. At the inquest mi Spencer, who was drowned at the Bluff when trying t.> save the hoy Buchanan, the jury foundthat he was drowned in a heroic effort to save life, no blame being attachable to anyone, and recommended that the lite-snving efforts of TJaniel .Tnhnson, Alfred Towner, and .lames Price. be made known in the proper quarters for some fitting acknowledgment. The jury als.) recommended the erection of 'a notice-board giving warrant tlmt fhe Im'mcli was dangerous for bathing, and that si lifebuoy be placed in a convenient, position.

| Stratford. Monday. Word has been received hcjre that Mr. J. 11. Wilson, of Gordon rotul, took a ■drink of sheep dip in mista/ke for hop* lieer this morning and expired before medical aid arrived.

Dunedin, Monday. Albert Brown, aged thirteen, son of William Brown, of Waikouaiti, wasi drowned in the Waikouait? river -while trying to rescue his younger brother, i who was in danger.

. , t Dunodin, last Night. 1h« body of a maUj supposed to be that of Alexander Reed, single wan, about 40 years of age, was found in tho Molyneux river near tho Clyde to-day. Deoeaaed, who was a xabbiter, was last seen on Itg ffanuarjj new tho river.