ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A BOY'S GALLANT EFFORT TO RESCUE A FRIKND. {.PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.'j NELSON, February 7. The Takaka correspondent of the "Colonist" telegraphs particulars of a sad case of drowning, aud a plucky attempt at rescue yesterday alternoon. While all the rivers were in. high flood, several boys were playing on the bjnk of the Takaka river, hooking out driftwood, when one, a lad nine years old, son of ius Mouider, of Rototi, fell into the rivur, which at this spot resembled a millrace. A nitite of his, Charles Jacobsen, aged twelve, immediately jumped into the rushing flood and clutched young Moulder, and the two were swept down together. (Jacobsen managed to giasp a willow tree, and .hold his drowning maie ior a time, but eventually the current parttd them, and Jacobsen had to struggle ashore alone.
GISBORNE, February 7. A fisherman named Alfred Ledger has been found dead in his hut.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10266, 8 February 1899, Page 6
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