DROWNING FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 8981, 2 March 1915, Page 6

DROWNING FATALITIES

DEATHS OF THREE YOUNG MEN. Press Association AcCrvlj-v-'iD, March 1. James Cadmun, eig.uceu years age, was drowned at o.,.xei linage. in me Uaitemata iiarbour, yesteruay afternoon. 'the water was shadow, ancl Cadman went out for a distance of a nundred yards. tie suddenly disappeared, and was not seen again. The uody was recovered at midnight. Tne mark ahoux. tno left eye ind.eatod that Cadman had dived and struck one oi 'ho stakes with which the vicinity abounds, thus being rendered uncoilzcKni*. CARTERTON, March 1. A young man named, Henry Ernest ,„ipa, aged twenty-four years, was drowned in tho Wnareroto Creek, KaJmtara, on Sunday., De: erued a::d a mate were batning when tno lonuer suddenly sank. Several attempts were made to recover the body, hut it was not found till late in the evening. The body has been tr.ken to Featherston. GREYMOUTH, March 1. James Walker, a young married man with two children, was found drowned in the Hochstetter Company’s headrace timber workings on Saturday. He was employed in driving the oilengine pumps. The body was found in three feet of water. A sudden seizure, or heart failure, is believed to have been the cause of his death.