ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 8688, 11 January 1889, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE RENFREWSHIRE. LBr EIECTRIO TBLmPAPS.—COP [Special to Press Association.] [Eeeeived Jan. 10. at 2.80 p.nauj LONDON. Jaw. 9. The Glasgow Board of Trade hare held an inquiry into the loss of the ship Renfrewshire, bound Jfrom Glasgow to Brisbane. They were unable to decide how the vessel was lost. [Pkk Pbbsb Association.] BOATING ACCIDENT—TWO LIVES LOST. NAMES, Jan. 10. A sad boating accident occurred at Fourere yesterday; Mr Bison, Manager of the Poutere run, and three other men, named Tylee; Cox, and Kennedy, went out on a fishing expedition. By some means the boat was upset. The firstnamed three reached the shore, but Tylee and Cox were insensible; and restorative measures had to be applied, which were successful. Mr Bizon, a gentleman of exceptional physique and athletic powers, was not so exhausted; and seeing Kennedy (a blacksmith on the station) drowning, went in again to save him. However, Dixon either became exhausted or was clutched by Kennedy, for he sank and both were drowned. Dixon was married only a few weeks ago. . . A. child named Droney, daughter of a publican at Meanee, while playing with crackers, got her dress on fire, and died from the injuries received, A verdict of ** Accidental death ” was returned. SUDDEN DEATH. PALMEESTON NOETH, Jan. 10. Mr Colin M'Kenzie, a well-known settler* dropped dead this morning in front of his residence at Ashurst. FOUND ,DEOWNED. On New Year’s Day, David Milne, aged twenty, employed on the Pareora Station, went to Timaru for the New Tear holiday, to return next day. He was last seen alive so far as known at the Ship Hotel, on Wednesday evening, and was missing since. Yesterday, Mr Guy, storekeeper of Beaconsfield, called at the Timaru Police Station, and gave information that the body of a man had been found by a boy named Eapsey, in a creek near Beaconsfield. Sergeant Livingstone and Constable Cullen went out at once and found the body of Milne, in Pighunting Creek, just beside the bridge on the road to Beaconsfield, and within fifteen chains of that township. The bridge is of stone with a good parapet, and the creek is full of willows at the spot, so that a person on the bridge cannot see the water. The officers found the body in about three feet of water. Drawing it out they found the clothes intact, except the hat, which was missing. A watch stopped at twelve minutes past ten, and £6 12s in money were in the pockets. (Deceased had received a cheque for £7 11s 8d on leaving the station for town.) There was a bruise on the face and another on the nose. Why, and how, deceased got into the water is a mystery, as it is quite shallow at the edges. There were no footprints on the brink, or any sign of disturbance of the creek bottom. The body was taken to the Saltwater Creek Hotel to await an inquest. THE LATE DEOWNING CASE AT TAYLOE’S MISTAKE. EECOYEEY OP THE BODY. As some men were fishing yesterday at Taylor’s Mistake, one of them came across the body of the missingboy O’Malley. The police were at once telephoned to, and Constables Johnson and M*Gill soon arrived from town, and with help had the body conveyed to Mr Hayward’s stable.

Yesterday afternoon, a labourer named William Veal, who was employed by the Union Steamship Company, on board the steamer Waihora, met with a serious accident. He was in the vessel's hold helping to uusling cargo, and was in the act of landing a sling containing two hales of cornsaoks, when one of the bales canted over and fell heavily on his right leg, breaking the bone below the knee. He was speedily got ashore, and Dr FitzHenry was soon in attendance. The limb was at once dressed, but it will be a considerable time before the unfortunate fellow can resume work.

About midday yesterday one of the numerous band of children that daily play in the Public Gardens wandered too close to the river, and fell in. A lad named Kennedy rescued the child with, out any further injury than a thorough wetting. The child, which was about four years old, had escaped the not over vigilant eye of its nurse, and but for the timely succour afforded must have been drowned.