A TERRIBLE DISASTER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5426, 29 November 1895, Page 3

A TERRIBLE DISASTER.

[Special to Press Association.] HOBARI", Nov. 29. Mr Kaye, the lessee of Trefoil Island, with his wife, son and daughter, started for the mainland about six weeks ago, but ' when a little distance from the island the boat was swamped and all were drowned in ! the presence of the remaining children on j the island. The fact was only discovered ! by men calling at the island yesterday. The fourteen-year-old daughter had looked after her younger brothers and sisters. All the provisions were exhausted, but the boy killed a sheep, on which they were living ; when they were found.

[Per Press Association.] ' NAPIER, Nov. 29. The search for the body of Alfred WilI liams, who was drowned near Havelock, ' is still unsuccessful. GIS BORNE, Nov. 29. Horatio Nelson Jones, an hotel-keeper at Tupao, dropped dead in the back yard of the hotel last night. The cause is sup--1 poaed to have been heart disease. MABTERTON, Nov. 29. Arthur Tyler, aged thirty, was killed at • the Weraiti Bawmills yesterday. He was cutting a log, when a portion rolled on to him, crushing his skull. Death was instantaneous. DUNEDIN, Nov. 29. ,Jane Douglas Simpson, aged nine, \ daughter of a fruiterer in Princes Street south, tell through a skylight last night, and died this morning. This morning a jockey named Donovan had his right arm severely bitten by the j racehorse Sternchaaer. The horse was j standing in a paddock at the Yaldhurst I Hotel Stables, and when Donovan went up 'to him the animal suddenly turned ! round and attacked Donovan, who j was thrown down and badly knocked I about. The muscles 'on his right arm, above the elbow, were severely injured) and it will be some time before he will be able to have the use of his arm. He wae taken to town and his wounds were dressed by Mr R. Brown, surgical dresser. Sternchaßer has a very bad temper, and this ie not the first time he has attacked his attendants.