ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 82, 2 December 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DROWNED WHILE YACHTING. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, December 2. Louis Neale, aged 28, whose parent! reside in Melbourne, was drowned or Saturday afternoon. He was yachtin' with a party on Mr. E. C. Bloom field’r yacht Arika. and after landing somi ladies at Waiheke, the yachtsmen were bathing from the yacht, whid was moored off shore. Neale and an other were in the water, and afte: the others had returned to the.yacht Neale’s companion suddenly discover cd ho was missing. A diligant searcl revealed no trace of the missing man He was a powerful swimmer, Wit wa subject to epileptic fits, due to mal aria! fever contracted during a visit t( South Africa.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A COOK. Wellington, December 1. Mary Sheehan, a hotel cook, a singhwoman aged 50, died suddenly on Sat urday night at her lodgings in Elizabeth Street. MAN HURT BY RUNAWAY. Wellington, December 1. On Saturday afternoon a horse holt ed with a gig near the Public Library but a telephone post smashed the gig, and the horse careered into and up Cuba Street. Thence it wont across i< Willis Street, and down that thorough fare in the busiest part. It took to the footpath, and struck an old man names James Kirk, who was seriously injured and was removed to the hospital. Li view of the number of people in the streets, including many wo-, men and chil Iren, it is remarkable Unit no more were hurt by the runaway. Kirk’s condition is hopeless.