ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5094, 13 September 1894, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

| * The Wreck of the Riogarooma, [Special to Pbess Association.! SIDNEY, Skpt.l3, H.M.S. Dart has returned to Noumea. The attempt to float the Ringarooina was unsuccessful, and the work of lightering out the contents of the ship is actively proceeding. A email French steamer carried material from the vetsji to Port Sandwich. The French war veseel Ducbaffault arrived on Sunday, and together with H.M.S. Dart endeavoured to tow the Ringarooma off. Her own eDgine s were set going full speed at the same time, but she did not move. It is believed the Ringarooma's pumps can keep the water under, although the reef has now pierced the inner skin. MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. An Awful Story. A farmer named Grant, living at Horaham, eighty years of age, mur.dered his wife by smashing hey head in with a hammer 5 . The woman was a slave to chloral, and frequently threatened her | husband. Through constant watching the old man's mind became somewhat un- i hinged. He has surrendered himself to ' the police, i

[Pee Pbess Association.! AUCKLAND, Sept. 12. John W. Young, first officer of the | American barque Mary Hasbrouck, died suddenly to-night, bursting a blood-vessel during a fit of coughing. | About midday on Tuesday same children were playing on the stand at the Canterbury Rowing Club's sheds, when one of them, about three years of age, fell into the river andwas carried down the stream. The cries of the other children brought several people to the spot, amongst whom were some of the employe's at Messrs Ward and Co.'a brewery. Two of them, Messrs O. Knight, cellarman, and Digby Neave, a sun of the Chairman of Directota of. the brewery, at. once proceeded to the rescue. Young Neave crossed the footbridge and plunged into deep water, and after several attempts succeeded in bringing the child to the surface, and then, with the assistance of Knight, who had gone in on the opposite side of the river, brought it ashore. After it had been treated for some time, it recovered sufficiently to be taken home.