Accidents and Fatalities

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 110, 10 March 1891, Page 2

Accidents and Fatalities

(per united press association.) Chbistchubch, March 9. " A fatal bathing accident occurred at New Brighton beach yesterday afternoon. Brown, a grocer at Belfast, drove his " family to the beach, and shortly after arrival a son, aged 12 years, went into the sea to bathe and got into difficulties. The father went to his assistance and both were drowned. Mrs Brown waited on the beach- for some time and then returned to Belfast. She was so horror stricken;, however, at witnessing, the death of her husband and son that she ' was unable to give any particulars. Timaru, March 9. A young woman named Annie Craw* ford, on a visit trom Lyttelton, was killed by a trap accident last night on Opihi bridge. Two sailors took out twogirls, and on the return journey both ' men got out and the- horse bolted. Miss ' ' Crawford jumped out and fell on her head, dying in a few hours. The other girl stuck to the trap till the horse was pulled up. Auckland, March 9 r Hyndman, who was injured at th« collapse of the Knntly mine, 'is still m ' ' Waikato Hospital, and shows little or noimprovement. • - , A young man named Owen was. accidentally shot at Motutapu Island to* 1 day. the charge entering his leg. '■ A man named Frederick .Reynolds had - his leg crushed between two. railway carriages at Helensville- this morning.'- He was brought down to the Hospital, but died soon alter, admission.