NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 28, 28 October 1907, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

I*" .' /[BY-VitaGRA'rH.—PRESS-'ASSOCIATION.] ~-. ~.■,.,.• J £K lF '™' G QET'TO SEA. TWO. BOYS IN A BOAT. •■•;--• ■ Christchurch, October 2G. At 0.50 last evening the postmaster at . Akarpa r .nspejvctl a tclopjiopo .mossage\.from Bap? -ta the adrift _Hi\a J b J Ba't in J-lio 'hafbWi'i'and'wero fust, boing oarried out to sea. A strong nor , -' wostor was blowing at the tiinOj and the seji was roiigh'and choppy. Colistablo Jackson, on liearing the facts of the cssn, procurerl an ,u^-iliyinch and went in scarcii of the boat, .(ftlioiiglv darl;nos3 was fast coming oru Re. was able, after cruising about in tho'harbour .fqr r . sginoj. time,..'to,jpic!?.,up..-tho \ lads,-■ wljo proved the tmrsdns of Mr; Parini,. one ago(l..nine and .the othor'fivo. They had visit to Barry's. Hay, and iiu stoad"of"returning by road had borrowed n\v old f|aU)oUoinod..bqat with no p.ars, intending ■id''pa'ddla back 1 to .a''piece pf bqard- ; -' "'-'Coiistjiblp,;Jackson's';jifomrjt.'-.bbtipii .probably saved the lives of tho hoys, V^s , . it >vojild liave heou impossible to pick them up after darkuess had set. in.' ; . . ■ :, ■*'""■' DISTRESSING; ■\-;r-,:.i ..■■',,.,.-.■ ..Nelson, October 27. Oh' Saturda y/afternoon an eight-year old son of Constable Tonkin was drowned at the-Park...--Tho. boy was, seen playing on the beach near tho whari'os. ■" A "little "oror , an hour lator his body was found at high water mark. It is supposed that ho slipped or \yaa blown from; a boat-landing. An addiItional /circumstanco \vas that Constable TonkinTwas! informed that |i body had been found, and that it was only when lie .went to rccqver the .same that lip found' it,-was his pwn son, An inquest was-hold, the saino' evening, 'find ti verdict :> of ■;• ; .