Fatal Boating Accident.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3109, 21 January 1889, Page 2

Fatal Boating Accident.

t Isvbbcaroiu, .January 20, David McGillivray, aged 12 years, son ot a carpenter living near the jetty, lost liia life yesterday on the estuary, some miles from town, The deceased went out in a sailing boat with a party of young boys, and was struck on the head aud knocked overboard by the boom, the halyards having given way as the boat was going about, No clear account of the occurence can be got from his companions, but from the fact that the boom, a heavy one, broke on his head, it was probable that' the boy was stunned and disabled from ah attempt to keep afloat, A son of Mr Mussen, the Crown Lands Banger, was thrown into tlio river at the same timo, but he swam till picked up. McGillivray had only recently recovered from severe injuries sustained in a fall .through a trapdoor in the upper floor of a flourmill. The body has not been recovered,

Killed by Foul Air. Hokitika, -January 20. A minor named Frekenck Bingham was killed by foul air in a shaft'at Hautau yesterday.'afternoon. A neighbor's cow had falleu 'down, the shaft and lie went'to try; and get it out, having his foot in a sling, Before reaching the. bottom lie - fainted and tell. His body was recoved last night, another mail, well secured' going down. The air was- so bad that a candle would not buru -4ft below the surface, ' -

lining News. :■ (liumibtiTH January 20. The Grey Valley Minor's Union decided to assist the containers of the Union, discharged same time ago, to enable them to leave thedistiict to obtain work elsewhere, Twenty have already fixed to leave; twenty others are expected to leuvo shortly, The export of coal last week up to Saturday evening was 4101 tons. - .. Eeefton gold returns for tlio week : —Globe 171oz of amalgam from 185 tons; Keep-it-Dflrk, 1770x< of amalgam fiom 120 tons, ' A largu party have visited-the .■North JJqijli dredging machinery at wofk,., Ono of the Prifstman's grabs,' which was dealing away the barren sin face of the wash, lifted and swung 011 one side 18 tons an hour,

Street ObstniqtionWwiMNwox, Monday, . Fivo tvawcar and 'bus drivers were lined;2s.(id each for (obstructingthe street in fro^tV of tl;e Opera; House. Owing to rivalry, -anti: .narrowness of tlie streets,. the. cars create. a great elusion of; : o\(ertaiiimeiits,' m - !d the jkfe iiHiou 'p^ey^nt^i