ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10236, 3 January 1894, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

FALL OYER A PRECIPICE. [Special to Press Association.! LONDON, Jan. 1. Professor Marshall of Owens College, Manchester, was killed hy falling over a precipice on Scawfell. [Arthur Milnes Marshall, M.D., F.R.S., was born at Birmingham in 1852. He | spent some time in 1875 at Dr Dohrn’c | zoological station at Naples, and eubsei quently assisted Professor Balfour in ! organising classes of comparative mor- ■ phoiogy at Cambridge. In 1879 he was ; appointed Professor of Zoology at Owens | College. Ho is tbe author of a number of i papers, &c., on subjects connected with j zoology.] AN ALPINE DISASTER. BUDA PESTH. Dec. 31. Three Viennese lawyers and one doctor, while ascending the Grosclockner, in the Alps, were smothered by a heavy fall of snow.

[Pee Press Association.! AUCKLAND, Jan. 2. When the Tasmania left the wharf at nine o’clock to-night, there was a great crowd, which had been accumulating since the departure of the Rotomahana an hour previously. While tho steamer was slowly moving along the end of the wharf, a young girl, Maggie Bell, aged fifteen, daughter of a seaman, was in the act of walking alongside the steamer and bidding adieu to a friend. She walked over the end of the wharf in the darkness. A young man unknown instantly plunged in and rescued her. Tbe Tasmania seeing this steamed slowly on, the people on. board and on shore loudly cheering the rescuer. His modesty was not less than hia gallantry, as he disappeared in the crowd on reaching the wharf. DUNEDIN, Jan. 2.

A young man named Harry Maitland has lost one eye by a splinter from a cap striking it while out shooting. The doctors found it necessary to remove the eye.