ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13946, 1 January 1906, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BOATING ACCIDENT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, December 31. A boat capsized at Redland Bay. A man named Fielding and a woman named At how were drowned. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 30. Two brothers named Scott were out shooting in the bush at Wainui. One heard a shot, and shortly afterwards found that his brother Edwin Scott had sustained a fatal gun-shot wound. An inquest is to be held. BLENHEIM, December 30. The reports as to the boating incident off Waikatfa Pa, some miles from Pioton, are conflicting. The rumour that three yourig Maoris were drowned was repeated to-day, but later information is that, though the boat was capsized by a gust of wind, all the occupants were saved. DUNEDIN, December 30. Mr James Pryor, aged sixty-eight, residing at Tomahawk, died suddenly last night while undressing.