CASUALTIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12162, 5 April 1904, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

Alexander Boag, a lad, was drowned on Sunday near the footbridge leading to the Taruharu (Gisborne) Freezing Works. The accident was not seen by anyoneo It is supposed that he fell off "the bridge. The family had only arrived the previous day from Napier. A Maori boy on horseback fell over a cliff in the Whatatutu (Poverty Bay) district. The boy escaped with a broken arm. A drowning fatality occurred at the Spit (Napier), by which Angus Ronald'Cameron, the six-year-old son of Mr Kenneth ron, of the Harbor Board staff, lost Ms life. The boy's parents were fishing off the cattle wharf, with the-little fellow playing about. Suddenly the mother missed the child, and on making inquiries found that a man named Watson had seen the body in the water, and not being a swimmer had tried to bring it ashore with a fishing line, but ineffectually, and the body was carried out to sea. Boats went out in search, but up to the present the body has not been recovered.