BOATING ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN DROWNED.
(per press association.)
Wellington, August 6 Particulars respecting the boat accident at Kawera on Sdturd&y state that George Wyatt and 3 natives put eff In a small beat to fish. There was a nss'y break on, bat they succeeded m clearing two or three seas when a tremendous roller, described as being a wall of water 20 feet high, struck and oaps'zed her. One of the natives swam ashorr. The others clung to the boat, and vhe breakers struok the boat when Wy»tt went nnder , and was not seen «goln, being evidently killed by the boat striking him. One of the natives wbb with d ffiaulty reaoued. He is terribly mangled, and Is soaroely expected to live. The other was dashed against the rooks and killed, being seen no more.
Another account says Wyatt dung to the boat for hnlf-an-hcur, and was then washed off. In a telegram to locpeo'or Broham, Constable Ward says that sometimes the people on shore could almost touch the drowning man when the back wash of the sea would carry him away again;
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1912, 7 August 1888, Page 3
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183BOATING ACCIDENT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1912, 7 August 1888, Page 3
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