ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3220, 26 March 1900, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Per Press Association. CHRIBTOHURCB, March 25. On Friday night a fisherman went out from Sumner and anchored his boat three miles off. The boat 'soon sprang a leak and the man had to bail out the water all night during heavy squalls and cold rain storms, his position being perilous. About 10 a.m. yesterday he was seen by Pilot Day who got a crew together, launched the lifeboat, and went out and brought the man in very little the worse for his adventure, but nearly perished from wet and cold. LYTTELTON, March 25. A fisherman named Frederick Newman was drowned in the harbour at 11. 30 last night by the upsetting of a boat. Alfred Bilton, who accompanied him, tried to save him, but almost lost consciousness and was rescued by William Geyland. Newman's body has been recovered. , GISBORNE, March 24. A native named Patara Timomo was drowned at Tikitiki, on the Waiapu river, whilst driving a bull across. His horse got into a deep hole, and he was unable to swim. Tepora Terita, a native girl, seven years of age, made a plucky attempt to rescue him. She was dragged under several times by the drowning man, who clutched her skirts bo that whilst under water she had to tear the band off her dress to escape. She was so exhausted that she was barely able to scramble ashore. Deceased's mother, an old woman aged seventy years, dived to the bottom oi the river and recovered the body. An accident occurred on the special train from Dunedin which reached here in the small hours of this morning. It appears that a couple of firemen who had missed their passage on the Wanaka took their passage on the special. They were seen together on the platform of a carriage after passing Palmerston, and when last heard of, before reaching Hampden, it waa reported that one fireman had fallen off, and that his mate in attempting to save him had missed his hold and jumped off. It took some time to let the guard know what had happened, and when the train stopped it was a long way past the scene of the accident. A short search was made, but as the special crossed another going south at Hampden, the accident was reported to those in charge of the latter. At Timaru, in response to numerous enquiries, Mr Marcus, the stationmaster, sent a wire south, and got a reply that the two men were all right. They were a good deal shaken but no bones were broken, and the men will come on to Timaru to-day.