ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7400, 28 February 1902, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

1 (PER PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Gisbornb, February 27. A man named George Wild is missing. On Sunday his boat capsized in the surf, and last evening he went to re-launch it, but the man and boat have not since been seen. Napier, February 27. A drowning fatality occurred here this afternoon. A lad named Crowther, aged seven, son of Mr S. Crowther, coach proprietor, who was bathing in the surf, was carried out to sea. When the little fellow was finally brought ashore by Constable Oliphant, life was extinct. Yesterday, owing to a heavy ground swell, there was a narrow escape fronc drowning near the tents. Napier, February 28. At an inquest op the boy Crowther, c verdict of accidental death was re turned. The jury praised ConstabU Oliphant'B gallant attempt at rescue and urged that more buoys be placec along the beach.

The Railway Department invites tenderi for lease of the right to run bookstalls a railway stations. Mr Simpson, general manager for th< Phoenix Insurance Company in Wellington and Mr Hall, manager at Wanganui, wen in Hawera to-day. They made inquiries and-.inspeoted the water supply, in view o a conference with the Taranaki branch o the Underwriters' Association at an earl; date.