ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 13, 17 January 1911, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[press association.] AUCKLAND, January 16. A lad niamed jYliaxweiil, a fell' off the oil hurnoh Renvi&ne iat HokLaniga last even i\ lg. A. ycumg miaji, John Cochrane, jumped in to endeavor to effect a rescue, <but failed 1 ; both beinig d;rowned. CH RISTGHURCH, Jamuary 16. An eJderly man nanted Earl hiacl' a m'iiraiculiaus escape from being kilted oil tilie Papianui road aiboxut..mid-diay to-diay. Eiarl was emp-Loyed laying telegraph cables aiomgAido' thie iroia'd, anid just as a tram wais approaeMing ho walked. .across the Jti.ne, apparentlyHot having heard the tram. Tlhe motor man was unable to stop the tramcar in time, the fender oras'liiiang into Eland and carryuing him some yards. He> was packed up urudierneath the forepart of the oar, somewhat bacDljy ■ cut ,alboai.t, but no bones were broken . NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 16. Mists Tur nihil 11, aged 21 years, daughter of the late Mr Andrew Turnbu'llL, Stipendiary Magistrate, vent vsiting on Thursday and wandered away arid was fonuiid oil 'Satrurdlay eveiniiii'g sunk in a sraanpy poiPtiom of a p.adtdock on Smart road, three land a haM miles from New Plymouth. She was very weak as the result of exposure on two bitteaily oold niglhits and died after mid-night on Siunday, .from pneuanioaia'a. No Inquest is considered necessary.