DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1249, 6 February 1896, Page 38

DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

Ah unfortunate drowning accident occured in the harbour on the 29th January. Three men named William Mandcr, Alexander Main and William Hooke were out fishing in a sihall yacht off Kaiwarra when a squall struck the boat, and she capsized. The three men were thrown into the water, but with some difficulty managed to get hold of the boat. The boat turned over several times, and Main was washed off and drowned. Shortly after Mandei' and Hooke were . rescued by a boat from the shore. The boat was about a mile off the shore when the accident happened. Main, who was about 45 years of ago, leaves a wife and son; He was an engineer, and was secretary of the Wellington Branch of the Society of Amalgamated Engineers. On the voyage of the barque Coromandel, shortly after she left Newcastle, one of the officers of the vessel was drowned. Tho tug had only left about an hour when James Jones, second officer, who was at the martingale back - ropes, was washed overboard. The vessel was diving into a heavy head sea at the time of the accident. Lifebuoys were at once thrown overboard, and two men were sent aloft to keep a look-out for the man, but by the time tho jolly boat was got out they had lost sight of him. The ship was hove-to about two minutes after the accident. After a fruitless search for about an hour, a strong breeze sprang up, and the boat had to return to the ship. Deceased was only 22 years of age, and belonged to Llanon, South Wales, He had been on the Coromandel for about six months.

Mr J. Ashcroft, Coroner, held an inquest on Saturday at the Morgue on the body of George Albert Maudsley, who was drowned while bathing at Paremata on New Year's Day. Richard Maudsley, the deceased's father, stated that he was satisfied that his son, who could only swim a little, had gone in for a bathe and had been drowned. He was a

steady lad, and a total abstainer. Constable Baskiville and Theodore Ballini, a fisherman, who found the body floating near tho bar off Plimn erton, also gave evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of accidental drowning.