ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10258, 29 January 1894, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE WRECK OP THE KANABOOKA. [Special to Pesss Association.! BRISBANE, Jan. 27. The steamer Kaasbooka was owned in Sydney, where most of her crow belong. She waa bound to Launceston with a cargo of guano. The captain and seven men in one boat, and the first mate and eight men in another boat,, left the sinking vessel together; but during the night they separated. Nearing the l;,nd the captain’s boat capsized ia the dark, and one of the occupants perished, but the rest managed to reach, tho shore. The boat waa washed ashore, and three of the men subsequently set out in her to obtain assistance, and were picked up by a steamer. Tho mate’s boat is still missing. The Kauabookar is the steamer which sank the s.s. Centennial in Sydney harbour a few years ago. Jan. 28. The steamer Kr.nabooka is insured in the Australian Office for .£4OOO. FATAL, THUNDERSTORM. [Per Press Association.] MASTERTON, Jan. 27. During a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon B. Carman, a prominent farmer, and his son were engaged watching a stack at Trainti, when the lightning struck the elder Carman, tearing his bat to ribbons and killing him instantly. The son waa rendered unconscious, but has since recovered. SCHOONER ASHORE AT KAIAPOI. THE OWAKE BELLE, News was received on Saturday morning that the O wake Belle, schooner, owned by Mr J. Sims, of Kaiapoi, waa ashore at tbe mouth of the Waimskariri, on the north suit. In attempting to cross the I>»i Frid-sy night the boat grounded, and it is "questionable whether she will be got off, as she is now full of water. Captain Melliah waa ia command. The Owake Belle was loaded with timber for her owner.. A party of men has gone down from Kaiapoi to the scene of the mishap to render any assistance possible. A further despatch received last night pays The above schooner ran ashore on Friday night about nine o’clock. Captain Hellish, in command, had a fair wind for coming in, but when on tho bar it suddenly changed, leaving the craft ashore ou the north spit. She gradually drifted off, but was found to be making water fast, so the captain ran her ashore on the south spit, where she now lies. About one-third of her cargo of timber has been discharged, tho deck-house and all movables nave been put ashore, and men are still discharging the timber, which, when thrown overboard, washes ashore. There is a possibility of her being saved • if the weatbor should continue calm. There is no insurance. Many people visited tho beach to see tbe wreck. She lies northeast and south-west, and at high water the sea breaks over her, but at low tido she is dry.

On Friday afternoon at Tinwald, while two men, named Courtney and Waddell, were engaged iu repairing telegraph poles, on tho wires being detached from one rotten pole it gave way, and tho men fall to the ground. Both sustained severe anlrie sprains and bruises.

Last evening, at about half-pasfc eight, Mra M’Clenahan, of Tomen "Koad, St Albans, met v/ith a seriona accident in Cathedral Square. Shu intended going homo by tha E-’apaaui tram, but accidentally got into the Sumner tram which started almost immediately afterwards. Mra M’Clanahan soon found that she had gob into the wrong team, and jumped off while it wae in motion. She fell down, and the wheel passed over her, breaking her right leg and crushing her left foot very badly, besides giving her a severe shaking. Some bystanders conveyed her to the porch in the Cathedral until the Fire Brigade ambulance stretcher arrived in charge of Messrs E. Smith, G. Fuller and M’Millan. She was then taken to the hospital, and her injuries, which were found to be or a serious nature, were attended to.