ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11638, 21 May 1912, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, May 20. A fatal accident happened at the Glasgow Wharf about 11 o'clock this morning, when a middle-aged man named Charles Thorpe, assisting to load .the .steamer Surrey, had his neck broken through a bale of tow being jerked on him, pinning him against the outside wail of the shed. Death was- instantaneous. Thorpe was a well-known local identity, and stood for election to the City Council last vear. ' ' Auckland, May 20. The Herald's Parenga correspondent reports a sad drowning accident. Five natives were out in a boat fishing, when a big breaker capsized the craft. Three of the natives were only poor swimmers, and, m spite of the efforts of their companions to save them, one, a lad named John Cash, was drowned in sight of his friends. The others got ashore with great difficulty. The Herald's Kawhia correspondent states that a seaman named Mays, belonging to the scow Ngaru, took the ship's boat on Sunday to go fishing at the heads. The boat was seen outside the heads in the afternoon, but nothing has been seen or heard of it since. Some wreckage was found on the beach towards Aotea to-day, and it is feared the boat must have capsized in the, breakers. Search parties are out.