DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5213, 1 March 1904, Page 3

DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN. PRESS ASSOCIATION. GISBORNE, February 29. Tho Rev Mr Ensor, who arrived from Nelson on Saturday to relieve tho Rev Mr Chatterton iu charge of me Tneological College here during the latter’s absence in England, was drowned on the beach this morning. He loaves a wife and, three children. Mr Ensor went to tho beach, unaccompanied, for a bathe. No one appears to have noticed him go in. The sea was smooth, and tho beach shelves very gradually. At 8.15 his body was found floating in deep water, and was identified by the clothes on the beach. There were numerous bathers on the beach during tho morning, and it is regarded as one of tho safest bathingplaces in the colony. Mr Ensor was in ill-health, and it is surmised that he died from heart failure on entering the water. AUCKLAND, February 29. The yacht Water-lily capsized in Kaipara Harbour yesterday afternoon, when James Hannagan and Edward Linton, employees at a canning factory, were drowned. Arthur Lundberg, the other occupant of the yacht, swam ashore safely. The bodies of tho -others have not been recovered. WESTPORT, February 29. Oswald Savarsen, flaxmill band, has been accidentally drowned in the Karamea river. DUNEDIN, February 29. Kenneth Nelson, the ten-year-old son of thp dredgemaster of the Gold Bank dredge, was drowned on Saturday afternoon in the dam where the dredge was working.