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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES ♦ ■ SUPPOSED LOSS OF TWO LIVES.' • (BT XJELEGRAP9— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TIMARU, 21st January. • It is feared that two lives were lost at the Rangitata mouth to-day. Charles Nicholas, an elderly man, an old resident ot Temuka, and' a well* known angler, and A. E. Darby (understood to be a Geraldine • resident) this morning undertook to cross a part of the Rangitata River, near one of its mouths, in a flat'bottottied boat. 'Nicholas had ferried one man 1 over,, and was fetching over Darby, when he was overpowered by the current, and carried out to sea. ' An' off-shore ■ breeze was blowing, and' the' boat was carried a long way out to sea. Word was telephoned to Timaru, and the harbourmaster (Mr. Tait) went out in the. board's motor lauhch to the rescue. Starting at 1 p.m., he reached the river at 3.30 p.m., and zig-zagged about for some .time 'southward, but BaW nothing of the boat. ■ In the afternoon the wind changed, fthd he concluded that with such a bi'eefce ,it must have drifted ashore, if not swamped and lost ; but there was no sign of them ashore. -■The, people at Rangitata thought the launch did not go as far out aq, where the boat Was last seen. There was a considerable, breeze and r a strong jobble all the morning. SERIOtriTmSTAKK. GISI3ORNE, 21st January. To-night, after finishing work, Charles de Thierry, a bachelor, employed by the Harbour Board, proceeded to his whare on tile breakwater, and took a long pull at a bottle of carbolic acid, mistaking it for beer. " He Was conveyed to the hospital in a serious cohdition. The strenuous life of to-day renders accident and sfekness insurance no longer a luxury, but a necessity. The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation's new "Leader Policy" covel* all aeddftnti tnd 60 dimiet. Proipectus tent on receipt of application.— Advt,