ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10854, 25 March 1929, Page 4

ACCIDENTS & DEATHS

TRAGEDY OF THE SEA

.MISSING EISHKii.MEN GIVEN IT

i Press Association.)

IX BE R CARGILL

March 23

It is reported from Bluff that it must be accepted as a fact that a tragedy has overtaken the crew of the missing fishing vessel Twilight. It is a month since the vessel was last seen, and it is learned that she was on a three days’ cruise only. Exhaustive searches have been carried out by vessels eastward and westward of Foveaux Straits, one vessel having gone as far as Dusky Sound, whilst all the outlying is"ands.. round about Stewart Island have been visited in the hope that the men may have reached land. The crew comprised William Hanning (master). J. Stewart and C- Traill. Hanning was a thoronghy experienced man. having spent- practically all In- life in the;, fishing industry about Bluff and Stewart Island

('HiU) KILLED BY MOTOR COLLI Pi OX. XO BLAME ATTACHABLE TO anyone (Preen Association.! WELLINGTON. March 23. An inquest was held by tJic Coroner Mr. J. S. Barton, R.M., into the death of a child named Joyce Mary Cowell, who was killed as the result of being knocked down by a motor car in Jackson Street. Petone. on Wednesday afternoon last. In bringing in a verdict of accidental death the Coroner said he had come to the same conclusion as witness. namely, that no blame was attachable to flu* driver of the car. The evidence negatived any element °i undue sliced, for the ear had just started and the driver had kept a proper look-out and pulled up sharply- It appeared that his attention uas attracted by another child in the narrow street, while at the same tune a vehicle was passing. In the circumstances, the Coroner thought there could be no blame attachable to anyone.

COLLISION WITH CAR. MOTOR-CYCLIST FATALLY INJURED. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND. A larch 24. A motoring fatality occurred in the city yesterday, the victim being AVilham Young, married, aged of Re was riding a motor-cycle when be became involved in a collision with a motor-car at a.corner. Young suffered severe head injuries, and was rendered unconscious, ami died soon afto* - being taken to hospital.

ATTACKED BY BULLS. TWO MEN SERIOUSLY INJUR' ‘ (Press Association-^ AUCKLAND. March 23. Two men are in Auckland Hospital as the result of being attacked by bulls. They are Cecil Jenkinson, 40, of Alt. Roskill,. a single man, with severe abdominal injuries, and. it is believed a fractured-pelvis. His condition is serious. . ’ Walford Fowler, 22, employed on Springthorpe station, near Mercer, received severe abdominal injuries. v Who pays the bill for the injured? Consult tho Standard - Insurance Company for full protection.—C. G. Bloore, chief agent ; S;” G- Northe, local manager.—(Advf.)