WEEK-END ACCEDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 January 1914, Page 4

WEEK-END ACCEDENTS.

yototg UAH vanwni CAPSIZE OF A DB«Sti£ A drowning fatality oieuw* h iv. Aucktand Harbour o'clock on Satunfcy evening TSi* man named John Irwne, * two companions named LyaSTSZ 2? ing from a dinghy Union Company's HaurotoTxl^':.*• young men had -been &h!m- fctTJj* a iheavy swell caused itheit■W^-S? in a rather alarming tobea little eJSTSaJfcWf the .water before Kβ save him. A. J. Lynch immediately. The dinghy"iiiSi.ffi} the three men were W t te £S* ** ■the water. .- ......,.. : -.'r*"™ a Buoys were thrown from-tte and a. bell was rung to att^iS* 0 Mr. E. Davaney, near the steamer jPttkiti, «,ttoiler rescue. He saw Irvine dingfo, £ j?* bottom of the the Hunch could ■&•■&&&£%£ •his hoW and brothers had Am. W; **tS"ffl Irvine, and they wertf Mttntffctito*it an exhausted cowEtkut to M tnTwL!! of death, f** Dragging operations "rrrr' rrtiiiiiin-■•; 1 on Saturday right and contiim^^ ACCIDENT AXXT DBOWKXD. THE SHELLY. BEACH Jf^A^:" The adjourned inquest' - the drowning on Friday ait Shelly *&k4d the youth Leslie Arthur Aduni -wm Maduded thie morning before? lit'EVC, Cntten, S.M. James vm bathing an company ■ with^ kJLmf Friday, said that Adams wit- hk At 8.30 p.m. the-two of them wet for a swim at Shelly Beach; mndtter net into the water together.' AdfeoM cooJd not ewim. A lot of igfo the 'water just after witn«e and hk cousin came in.' The *~-t Tritnre m of Adams was when the Utter Vu standing in the water, up. to ha arapitte, about 30 yards out from iie %«■& Watnens ewam about for some tine, ud paid no further attention to Adan MH he noticed some time later flint ta tatter's clothes were etill on the be*. Witness called out, and mad* inqaria, but nobody seemed to have seen tty•thing of his cousin, or have hiiird ilj!', cry for help, so wrtneMyianjf-ittp \tt«. police. It wag .three or 'fonf tjiißiittli after they went into the ■wattrih*fc last noticed Adams in- the water, ass it was not till about a quarter «* v. b« r later that he miased Adam* uj silt inquiries; it was then mooalight, it was dark when they went into tie water. There -was, m fu-n litoi knew, no possible suggestion tbit fci cousin intended to drown htateif. & body was found only, a fewyii&ittt where witness h»d first seen 5 The Coroner found th&t AAtßt KM accidentally drowned while bsthiw it SheUy Beach-.on. Friday. / -". "' X.EVZX cßOssnrG aqaw. MARRIED. MA^KILIJBI)} (By AwertitloeJ Smidij. An (employee at the W*ia|»w» -.'-dki works, Thomas when, attempting .to cross; line, was struck by an engine «id kilW instantly. He was a married man, tnd leaves a wife in England.. The inquest was held.'-jsiitojef'-ilr.-i' T. M, Hornsby, district coronwr; .yeitb day afternoon* when. the following t* diet was returned:—"The deoewed, TOl i Bailey, known in his employiwnt M T, Johnston, was killed accidentally sboot 7.45 ajn. on Saturday, JannirjT. lf,;ii: the result of endeavouring to .crocs ttt railway line at the "crossing near A: company's works in front of the monaj train from Masterton •to Wellingfo. The engine men of. the train, gave.4«: and full warning with the engine whato No blame is -attachable to anyone." ■ ' DROWNING AT WBLUWQW* {By Teleeraph.— Vtm AwocUnifc) WELLINGTON,'SanityA fatal accident occurred thie metoj near Happy Valley, not fir fwwldwj Bay. Three men, Thomas Smith, E»j* mm Smith, and Francis MeMden,'«« out in a boat, and' while one m« W standing on the gunwale p«P»™«? M plunge in for a bathe, the crtft ep sized. '":'.■ "'■' ' : ■ : "- '■■/-;. i,^. Benjamin , Smith and MclMdm.nW gled to a reef about 30 yards j«f»y, W. Thomas Smith wae drowned." Th» at the spot was about 13 feet deep- £ ceased was a married m»n .fite "» children. . , ■