ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5461, 13 January 1896, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

BOILER EXPLOSION

[Special to Press Association.] ROME, Jan. 11

A torpedo boat on Lake Maggiore exploded and sank. Twelve were drowned. KILLED BY A SHARK. SYDNEY, Jan. 12." A number of boys were bathing in the harbour yesterday, when William Reddie, aged twelve, was seized by a shark, which tore his- right leg and side completely away. The occurrence was witnessed by a crowd of people, one of whom, a man named Johnstone, jumped into the water with his clothes on, and after a desperate struggle, dragged away the boy, who died in a few minutes. [Per Press Association.] FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT. TEN PERSONS DROWNED. AUCKLAND, Jan. 12. A fatal boating accident happened at Kaipara, eight miles from Gloria, by which ten persons were drowned : — Mrs Perkins, Jessie Perkins (21), Nellie (17), Harold (14), Lottie (10), Mr and Master Armstrong, Mrs Reniatrick, Miss Josephine Macdermott (19). The other names are not given. Constables Kelly and Williams are searching for the bodies. No details of the accident have been received. Mr Perkins was a settler at Gloria, Armstrong was a resident in the district, Miss Macdermott was a daughter of Mr W. J. MacDermott, printer in the Herald office. The two lastnamed were on a visit to the Perkins. It is supposed that the party were in Perkins' boat and got capsized. AUCKLAND, Jan. 13.

Owing to the isolated position of the locality where the boating accident occurred in the Kaipara district, and the distance from a telegraph station, only very meagre particulars as to the fatality are yet known. It is believed that there were no survivors, and the details of the accident are, therefore, unknown. The party were out for a sail in Perkins's boat, and it is supposed that a sudden gust capsized the craft.

A Star telegram from Port Albert states that ten persons were drowned, only one young man, named Edwards, being saved, and he swam three miles to the shore. The additional person drowned was Mr W. Palmer's only daughter, aged twelve. There is no news of any of the bodies having been recovered. Armstrong leaves a widow without a relative in the colony.

The supposed boating fatality took place while Mr Perkins's boat was going across to a small island in Kaipara Harbour in order to hold a picnic. Miss Perkins, the eldest girl was to have been married shortly to Mr Eamsay, a farmer at Paeroa. Armstrong was a man about thirty years of age, and originally came from Wellington. He has been a farm labourer in the district recently, but was formerly a draper or grocer. Beswarfck was up here looking for work, and it is believed that he leaves a family of eight or nine at Oamaru.

The bodies of Miss Nellie Perkins and Miss Minnie Palmer have been recovered. The boat capsized accidentally.

Edwards states that he made a strong effort to save his companions, and suoceeded in getting nine out of ten on to the bottom of the boat. twice. v He swani two miles with the boy Armstrong on.his back, till the boy was washed : off by seas. Edwards reached the shore much exhausted. He swam the Hoteo Eiver, half a mile wide. He took the party out fishing, and when returning the boat capsized near the entrance of the river. ,

HAWERA, Jan. 11

A girl named Cummings, who was burned through her clothes catching fire while playing with matches, has djed from her injuries. 'GISBOENE, Jan. 11.

The brigantine Ocean Eover broke away from her moorings in the bay this morning .whilsfethe captain and crew were ashore, only the cook being left' on board. The vessel was being blown out to sea, twhen the Union Company's steamer Moa started in pursuit, catching her several miles from the anchorage and towing her back to port.

At Eangiora, yesterday, Mrs D. G. Matheson was driving from church, accompanied by some lady friends, when her horse bolted owing to a part of the harness giving way. • The animal went- along High Street at a hand gallop, but at the East Belt a passer-by managed to seize its head, whereupon it fell, breaking one of the shafts of the buggy. The ladies escaped with a f rights