ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16549, 13 May 1914, Page 10

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

TWO CHILDREN DROWNED. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 12. Two little children, Rachel and Richard Corban, wandered away from their home in Grey Lynn to-day and got into a flooded creek which had three or four feet of water in it. Their mother heard cries of distress and she rushed to the creek, but was too late to save the children. She recovered the body of the little boy, but all efforts to restore respiration iailed. The water was so muddy that the body of the girl was not found for some time. An inquest will be held. FOUND DEAD IN BED. [From Our Correspondent.] KAIKOUBA, May 10. An old man * named Peter Gordot? Milne Macfarlane, seventy-five years of age, was found dead in bed this morning. The deceased was a military pensioner and before residing in Kaikoura township was schoolmaster at Clarence Bridge. Death is presumed to hard been duo to heart disease. MISSING LAUNCH ARRIVES. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 12. The occupants of an oil launch which left Kapiti Island on Sunday evening for Paremata (Porirua Harbour) have not since been seen. The men are A. Thompson, John Casey and Norman Cooke. Tho police are searching the coast. . ,y Latest nows states, that the Kapiti launch party has reached Par cm ate safely. No details are known, but it is supposed that the launch put back to the island for shelter from the southerly which was sweeping through Cook Strait on Sunday. The relatives were arranging to-night for tho despatch of a searcli steamer from Wellington, but receipt of the cheering tidings put an end to that. A BROKEN LEG. [Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL. May 12. William Fletcher, contractor for M'Gruer and Taylor’s new building, fell from the first floor, a distance, of 20ft. ’ sustaining a broken leg and bruiser. His condition is not- serious. YOUNG MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF:. [Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, May 12. George Elliot, twenty years of age. a dairy factory employee, shot, him sell in a boardinghouse at North Invercar gill this evening. No reason is knowr for the act. DEATH FROM NATURAL CAUSES At tho, inquest into the death oi! Christina- M’Kinnon, aged seventy, who died at Ot-ara, a verdict that deatK was due to natural causes was re., turned. TRAMWAY ACCIDENT. A middle-aged woman, named Mrs Mary Grange, residing at Brown Street, Bexley, met with an accident last evening. Mrs Grange was driving home in a gig. and near tho junction of Rolleston Street and Cashel Street she collided with an approaching tram, and was thrown out. She was removed! to the Hospital, where she was found! to have received a wound on tho fore* head and a number of minor bruises. It is stated that it' the motorman had not acted with much promptitude in applying the brakes the accident would have been much more serious.