ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4927, 17 April 1894, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

♦ ■ Drowned at Sea. [Pbb Pbks Association.] WELLINGTON, Apbii. 17. The Samuel Ferguson referred to in the Sydney telegrams as having been lost off ' the Tarawera between here and Sydney j waa a well-to-do farmer, hailing from i the Goulhurn district, New South Wales, i He had been fitty-ftve years in Australia, : and when he left Sydney on March. 22 to ■ ! come to New Zealand to see a relative at ; Blenheim, it waa the first time he had set j foot on a vessel during that period. He • left Wellington last Wednesday in capital ! Bpirita. He was aged about sixty-eight ! years. | Accident on Board the Tekapo. ■ During the passage of the steamer Tekapo, from Lyttelton to Wellington, a young man, named Simpson, attached to the Magistrate's Court, Dunedin, fell down the hold and injured his back. He was removed to the hospital.

i This afternoon one of the horseß har- [ neased to a dray loaded with straw, the I property of Mr Brown, of Broadfield, fell Sat the corner of Durham and Caßhel i Streets. A large quantity of straw was ! thrown on to the road, and the horse had both its knees cut.' The driver escaped t unhurt.