FATAL ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 68, 20 March 1916, Page 6

FATAL ACCIDENTS.

RIVER FATALITY. PAEROA* RESIDENT DROWNED! -> (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) PAEROA, jttis day. John McCarthy, aged 59, wasdromta* whilst bathing at the junction of tbt Ohinemuri and Waihou Rivers yestaidai; afternoon. Deceased, who was, •; |6o|t, - : swimmer, set out, in company ititk-Hfp*? Lang, to swim across the river. Before reaching the bank he seemed to be drift* ing down stream. About 200 yards from the spot where he entered the water hi put up his hands and disappeared. - Miss Lang, who was on the other tide of the stream, dived to his assistance, a* did also a man named J. Roach; who n&. ceeded in catching hold of McCarthy, bnt was unable to maintain* his hold, and* deceased slipped back into the water about six yards from-the bank. The body, was "recovered two hours later, v Deceased was many years ganger on the | railway at Paeroa. He leaves a widow, ; four daughters (one married) and four sons, two of whom art at the front. * ' ' * k ■•". MAN AND GIRL DROWNED. —— -'•- 'v--':'-.'«r----(By Telegraph—Press Assoclitlon-l^T GISBORNE, this da * ._; A Tokomaru Bay correspondent jrfr , ports two death* by drowning. A.. Maori girl, aged 14, while attempting to cross a swollen creek, got entangled in driftwood, and lost her life. Charles Bramell, bookkeeper at .tjiiV: Tokomaru Farmers' Co-operative',.Goal:... ■ pany, aged 32, unmarried, waa (wtpt, out to sea whilst bathing. ... A Waipiro Bay correspondent report that Robt. Armstrong, an elderly man, was found dead on 'the roadside.-; Am inquest was field, and a verSct r«turned of "Natural causes, accelerated by exposure." ~"~~~""— — —— — MAN KILLED BY TRAMCAR. j-, _■ WELLINGTON, Sunday.:■ A man named Thomas William Reati who had been employed as stewird oi the steamer Maori for the past fortnight, was struck by a tramoar last night, near the post office, and kiM. instantly. Apparently he did not notiit the car's approach and lurched in front, the motorman having no time to*iff Deceased, who was about 36. years nH» | was the eon of a clergyman in Be*" brokeshire, and formerly .spent ■'■»&*:. time in America. . '''".'-' SURF-BATHER'S BODY RECOVERED.? ______ "''lTS'i NAPIER, SundayThe body of P. H. Spalding, storekeeper, of Waimarama, who had Hell missing since Tuesday, wan waahed if on the Waimarama Beach on Friday. At the inquest a. verdict of accidentally ' drowned while surf-bathing wan returned.