ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5769, 13 January 1897, Page 3

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[Per Press Association?. THEEE BEOTHEES DEOWNED. SYDNEY; Jan. 13. Two boys named Kerslake, while bathing |at Enfield, got out of their depth. A third ! brother went to their assistance, but all were drowned. AUCKLAND, Jan. 12? A boy named Knox, residing in-Eokerby Street is reported to be missing. ' He^aslast seen on the wharf. WELLINGTON, JaNS-IS'.' X body has been found in the Mattawatii Eiver six miles below Palmerston, supposed to be tliat of Mr Lawson, Eailway Engineer, who was knocked off the train on' the Pohangina bridge on July 2. DUNEDIN, Jan. 12. . The hat of the young girl M'Corkindale, missing since Sunday, was found on the cliff above the beach to-day, but tho body Has not yet been recovered. Frank Drayton, a young man in the employ of Mr W. M'Leod, of Waimate, was, on Monday afternoon, driving a cow tothe slaughter yard. The cow ran into a 1 section, and Drayton rode after her, when his horse fell into an unused well about twenty feet deep. Drayton managed to jump clear as the horse went down. The animal was got np with blocks and chains, but in pulling it clear of the well the tripod on which it had been lifted fell, striking one of the helpers, Joseph Williams, on the head, causing a severe scalp wound, cutting his forehead and badly injuring his shoulder. i Mr E. C. Studholme, of the Waimate Estate, received a sunstroke on Saturday ■afternoon. He is now recovering.