CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11993, 16 March 1901, Page 8

CASUALTIES.

(Per United Press Assosiation.) AUCKLAND, March 15. In connection with the boating fatality, Reed, the survivor, states that he and James Perk formed the'crew of the fishing boat Swift. They were proceeding to the craft in company with May Mills and Mary Campbell, with whom they had been drinking about town during the evening, when a large wave came through the railway wharf causing the dingey to roll. This threw Mary Campbell on the too of Perk. The dingey capsized. Reed was a good Bwiminer, and May Mills could also swim. The two others were unable to do bo. When the dingoy capsized Mills grabbed Reed round the neok, while Campbell seized her, and Perk took hold of Campbell. All four sank together, but Reed managed to loosen his hold of the girl, and they then roso to the surface He then, struck out for the dingey, but it sank when all were holding on to it. Perk and tho woman were' then crying out for help.- Reed swam towards the scow Flora, to try to get her dingey to rescue tlie others. He told Mills to swim ashore, but being hampered by her clothing she was unable to do this. Reed safely reached the scow, but found that there was no dingey. Ho then lapsed into insensibility. He was rescued by a fisherman named Pettone. WANGANUI, March IS. . Daniel Robertson, a young man, died in ' the hospital this morning from injuries sustained as the result of a fall from his horse last evening. Whilst he was galloping along the 'main street the saddle tfoisted, and Robertson was thrown on hie head. He "never regained consciousness. Albert Wenlock, 21 years of age, had the misfortune to' have the small bone of his right leg fractured at Messrs Irvine and Stevenson's jam factory yesterday.. It.appears that he was rolling some material to the lift. The latter happened to be a little above the level of the floor, and a boy who was with Wenloek proceeded to*" lower it. Wenlock's foot slipped, and was crushed between the lift and the edge of the floor. He was attended to at the hospital. The fourteen-year-old son of Sub-inspec-tor Eiely slipped and fell yesterday while playing in the gymnasium at the Christian Brothers' School, with the result that one of the bones' of his left forearm was fractured.