ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5456, 7 January 1896, Page 1

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Pbess Association.] i AUCKLAND, Jan. 6. At the inquest on the body of Sheean^ drowned at the city saltwater baths, a verdict of accidentally drowned was rejturned. The jury regarded the bathing platform as unsafe for non-swimmers. j - WELLINGTON, Jan. 6. Another sad drowning accident, the third which has happened within the last few days in the vicinity of Wellington, happened at Island Say this morning. The circumstances are that two young ladies, Miss Olive Goldfinch, aged about seventeen, daughter of the late Mr J. M. Goldfinch, Chief Clerk in the Police Department, and Miss Lillie Brown, daughter of Mr S. Brown, Hanson Street, went to bathe off the rocks along the Queen's Drive, about two hundred yards distant from the Island Bay Hotel, By some misadventure they both got into deep water and sank. The accident was seen by Masters Harold von Dadelszen and Percy Kinniburgh, two Wellington College lads. Von Dadelszen went in, and eventually succeeded in bringing Miss Brown safely ashore, exhausted but alive. Her companion had sunk out of sight. Young Kinniburgh dived and recovered the body of Miss Goldfinch, but although remedies were promptly used, it was too late to save life. Both lads showed bravery worthy of the highest commendation.