ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11188, 9 February 1897, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

SHIPWRECK. [Per Press Association.] LONDON, Feb. 7. The barque City of Agra, which left Melbourne on Dec. 10 for Hull, has been wrecked at Corcubion, on the coast of Spain, and thirty-five of the crew were drowned. MELBOURNE, Feb. 8. It is believed here that the City of Agra, reported to have been wrecked on the coast of Spain is not the Australian trader, but a steamer of the same name trading between Calcutta and London. DEATHS PROM THIRST. BRISBANE, Feb. 7. Two swag-men have died from thirst in the Koma district. NAPIER, Feb. 8. At the inquest on Thomas Birkett, the jury returned a verdict that death resulted from taking carbolic oil in mistake for medicine. WELLINGTON, Feb. 8. Two young men named Beck and Coulter left Paikakariki on Saturday in a boat, intending to go to Dunedin. They were warned that the sea was dangerous, but took no heed, and their clothing was found on Kapiti Island, whence it was at first assumed that they were drowned. Fortunately, they escaped, as, though the boat capsized, they succeeded in swimming ashore. Our Cheviot correspondent writes: —An accident occurred to a man named Riley at Parnassus station. He fell into a saw-pit, breaking some of his ribs. Dr Wilkinson, of Cheviot, attended the sufferer, and ordered his removal to the hospital. The manager of Parnassus did all in his power to secure the comfort of the unfortunate man. An inquest was held at the Ocean View Hotel, Governor’s Bay, yesterday afternoon, on the body of the man who was found floating in the harbour on Sunday evening. Mr R. Beetham was coroner, and Mr T. Townsend was chosen foreman of the jury. George Chapman, head assistant at the Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum, identified the body as that of Edwin. Duggleby, who was a patient at the asylum, and was missed on theevening of Jan, 31. A verdict of " Found drowned ” was returned. The sailors from the barque City of Adelaide, whose boat was capsized in Lyttelton harbour on Sunday evening, were rescued by the yacht Venture, and not by the Kiaora. Mr W. Newton, who was cruising down the harbour at the time of the accident, saw the boat capsize and made all possible haste to the spot. Two-of the men swam ashore, and the third was hauled on board the Venture just as he became exhausted.