ACCIDENT ON FERRY STEAMER BRITANNIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8470, 22 January 1891, Page 5

ACCIDENT ON FERRY STEAMER BRITANNIA.

A MAN FALLS OVERBOARD.

FATAL RESULTS.

Yesterday afternoon an accident occurred on the ferry steamer Britannia, to an old man named James Borley, shoemaker, of Newmarket. The vessel was on her trip to the North Shore, about a quarter to three o'clock. When off the Railway Wharf, it is supposed Borley, who was 7'2 years of age, must have taken a fit of giddiness, or of some sort. At all events, he was in the water when first seen by one of the passengers, Mr. Williams, who gave thealarm. The steamer was at once stopped, and the mate and another man gob into the dingy and rescued Borley, who was floating on his back, but had absorbed a considerable quantify of water, and was greatly exhausted. The steamer returned to the Auckland ferry tee, and Borley was conveyed to the Hospital, his wife being: telephoned to at Newmarket of the accident. The unfortunate old man died of the nervous shock last evening at half-past seven, at the Hospital. All that could be got out of him after the accident was that he was going to the J\orth Shore to get some money due to him, so it is not clear how he fell overboard. Deceased was perfectly sober at the time of the accident. An inquest will be held to-day.