ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 10851, 8 February 1899, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

• The missing seaman who jumped overboard from the ship Oohtertyre in Wellington harbor has made hia whereabouts known, having reaobed ahore safely. A fisherman named Alfred Ledger was found dead in his hut at Gisborne. "The body was in an advanoed stage of decomposition. TC*ardlaM»£ Pound deatf" returned. \ ' #« ; , -&« jg The Takaka oorofewtfraat of tjfe* Helton ♦Ooloniirti?' telegrajfl&ljpb a b*P*» to .•$!? drowning and a plao^jpE^temp^jp;," B J>l; occurred'on rivers Were in and severifcß|iw were playing on the bank of the Takaka River hooking out driftwood, when the nine-year-old son of Mrs Moulder, of Rotoiti, overbalanced himself and fell into the river, whioh at the spot resembled a mill race. A mate of his, Charles Jaoobsen, aged twelve years, immediately lumi»Qd into the raabiag? flood, and, olutphlcig hold of yonng Moulder,. the two werlß-iwepjb dowjn together* >■■ Jaeobj ; Bfin managed to grasp a willow tree and hold 'his drowning ; %iate*>r a-tfaw.•■•. Eventually ! the current parted them, and Jaeobsen had to struggle ashore alone; The body of Moulder has not been recovered. Jacobsen's pluck was much admired. Emanuel Brae, who has been misßing from Kehon since Friday, has*not yet been heard of, "though active search has been continued. There is little hope now of discovering him alive.