ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10599, 7 March 1895, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

THE OROYA. [Special to Peers Association.] LONDON, March 3. The Oroya grounded at four o’clock in the morning during a heavy gale. There were one hundred and twenty saloon, sixty second, and eighty steerage passengers on board. If she proves to be damaged when got off, the passengers and mails will be taken on by one of the P. and O. steamers. The agent for the Oroya in Naples wires that the vessel is not making any water. It is proposed to remove a large portion of the cargo. Heavy seas prevent the tug rendering assistance, but it is expected that the steamer will be floated off to-morrow. NAPLES, March 6. The Oroya grounded three hundred yards from the shore in trying to turn in a gale. s he lies with a list to seaward. Waves stove in the portholes, and have broken the skylights over the deck. She is severely strained, and bumping heavily. She narrowly escaped touching a reef of jagged rocks. Tho landing of the passengers was effected with difficulty, and amid much excitement. [Per Press Ai-sociatxon.] AUCKLAND, March 6. A young man named John Wilkie was struck by a falling tree at Oraubei and seriously injured. He ie now unconscious. A child named Alfred Edward Jensen, ton months old, the eon of Edward Jensen, of Kaituna Valley, died yesterday morning. As no medical man had been ia attendance an inquest will bo held. An inquest was held at tho Ohrietehnpch Hospital, at 5 p.m. yesterday, before Mr R. Beetham, coroner, and a jury, of whom Mr G. Hamill was chosen foreman, touching the death of Albert John Southen, aged fifteen years, who died on the previous day from the effects of a kick from a horse. A verdict of “Accidental death” was returned.