CASUALTIES.
Oi*e of t'l>•' on V*v*r-i isteamer Opawa at Blenheim. ir.nm d W,; '. > was ifiowned whilst balhing ye.stenf.n , •■; is ac.snimd that the doceafiod was * with cramp. Ho hailed from London. . had onlv been a low months In tlto colony. He was*about twenty-two years of ag<. ami unmarried. An inquest was held at Greymouth yesterday the dorih of a steward laiwrii as Fulda-, who was employed on •he Hawta, and had met hia fate the previous night by falling off the wharf. The jury returned u verdict that death was caused through misadventure by drowning, and also recommended that the authorities be approached to bring under the notice* of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia the gallant and heroic action of Robert Hall, the third officer of the Kittawa, in going to the rescue. It appears tic latter was in the water for fifteen, minutes, and succeeded in getting a rope round Pnlda, who eventually was pulled on to the deck. Artificial respiration was resorted to for over forty minutes, but without avail. The deceased is said to have, a sister in Dun-
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Evening Star, Issue 12989, 7 December 1906, Page 1
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