ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 November 1924, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) On a launch trip to Paratu, Corn, mandel. on Sunday, a son of Mr G. D. Hansford, of the firm of Hansford and Mills, contractors, Wellington, was drowned when a dinghy, containing four people, including deceased,. upset in a heavy sea. Three others had a narrow escape from death. At the inquest on Joseph Sharp, aged 71 retired farmer, who wa g found drowned in the Waihopa) river, Invercargill, the evidence showed that he was worrying about finance, though he had no occasion to do ao. An open verdict was returned. While the Remuera was hove to outside the Wellington heads waiting for the weather to moderate she shipped a big sea. which knocked a seaman, Thos. Jones, aged 66, down and inflicted serious injuries. He dislocated his shoulder and sustained broken yibs and bruises to the head. Merrifield, one pf the engineers, got a severe scalp wouiid from the same wave. Juist after the arrival, at Devonport. of th.e ferry steamer from Auckland nt 10.20- this morning cries were heard Coming from the water. Some one launched a dingy and found a woman, about 70 years of ago. v ; hom they conveyed to a launch. Artificial respiration was resorted to, but the woman died. She has not yet been identified. The bodies of two newly-born infants were found buried in the sand on the shore of the estuary at Invercargill by two young mon, whose attention was attracted by the vigorous pawing of a retriever dog. The medical opinion is that one was still born and .the other may have breathed. A woman and a girl with empty bulators wore seen near the locality ot. Friday. The police are