ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 145, 28 September 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

I 1 ■ ■*.:> A CUTTER CAPSIZES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, TuesdAy.; ■■■'>< The cutter Clarence capsized yesta -;'j day afternoon at the mouth of t i ! ■' Thames river. There were four m on the vessel. Two or tiieim, Hat r and Wilkes, reached the shore after > v .j! hard swim,but th<) other two, Johnit i ' f ; and jtoroed. It k stood t%e loiter were residents; J* land.' J •Thames, > f The report that two , men namjjp JoQuwon and Clark were <frataman A' Thames river is incorrect. The f&tfr v are that four men from the ClateiA $ were coming ashore in, a danghy, whictt .>' capsized Harris and Wilkes. swam ashore and the others were picked tip 'by a launch and taken to Thames. Th< police sent our eearotti pasties, but the .i----men reported to the police that &y wers> A DESPONDENT f ' ■ Wellington,- Ttwfldfli. At the inquest on the body of Mrs, : Elizabeth tManfcin to-day the eviAea showed 1 itbat Iher death was dog to . dirowning. Her husband is in Engfind. She had been depressed for some 4pne, > but waa not in financial difficulties as a local firm of edlicitors had £loos keeping for Ster. ■ is" ' A ,WEST COAST LEST. | ' Westport, Tuesday. , A boy named Burmden ma louwPojk ''•'« conscious on the Detunston' row botih jaws broken. He 4a supposed have been killed by a horee. 1 * Mi? Daniel Macnamara wfasstrudr on,sty, chest) by a piece of timber from a ' ■ i which was being blasted at tjhe ramqr works. He waa rendered unconscious. James Fmnerfcy died from a fnctijw}' a 1 skull sustained owing to a piece' of < tin* •ber flying ibaefc from amw while w6ii;« \\ ing at a milL He leaves a -widow and I seven young children.

KICKED BY A HGBS& Ghriateburch, Last Night ' The police received ward to-day that William John Mann, a farm laborer, had died at East Oxford as a result of a v kick from a horse. . DROWNING OF AN AOTOR.' * \ A recent cable message referred to ' the death by drowning in Sydney ol Un .„■> Arthur Edlwatds, of, "The Arcadians" -S Company. Details of the accident, whi#t ' took place late on Saturday week, dune to hand bythe last snail. It «eems(sayß . the Sydney Herald) that Mr. Edwanta < had Ibeen yachting all .the afternoon wittt ■X ,* Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Shadier and child, ? ' I£m Schroder, and Mr. James Woof (Neutral Bay), and just before 5 okJotk tuochor was dropped in North Harbor. Wood anil Edwards ihen Manly wharf, and Jandf from the party, opposite Fsirlight Hausfy/raj were seen to upset. No immediate assist*.( ance was amikible. Mr. Wood wai seed clinging to the dinghy, holding -his jjs panuyn up, but his powers failed hhtb 'w| Young Edtwaidfl eank despite every j Sort, and'when Mr. Wim. Oookford eld the spot by strenuous effortfo , only in time to save t/he almost gnewMM scious survivor. Mr. Wood was i to the topuse of a Mrs. Collier near I where he recovered rapidly with th? | of.Pestoiatives. <" ''jw