ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
Dunedin, This day
I There was a narrow escape from a boating fatality in the harbor, within a mile or no of the city, on Saturday evening. Drs Macdonald and Colquhoun and Mr H. Fulton were out sailing , , and the boom of the sail knocked Dr Macdonald overboard. Happily he could swim, and the boat being got*round a rope was thrown to him, but the boat was going so fast that the rope dragged him under the water and he had to let'go. Dr Colquhoun then jumped over with a rope, but was himself near drowning. Dr Macdonald having been 15 minutes in the water was just succumbing when a rope sent from the shore reached him, and he was saved when almost at his last gasp. Dr Colquhoun was subsequently pulled into the boat safely. CiißiSTcnnKcn, This day. Two boys, sons of Mr Small, farmer at Wheatstone, were drowned to-day while bathing in an old gravel pit. At the inquest yesterday on the body found in Lyttelton harbor on Friday last, the body was identified as that of Thomas M'Cleary, laborer, who had lived in Christchurch, and had left his home ten days ago. His wife could not account for her husband having gone to Lyttelton.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4163, 25 November 1884, Page 3
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210ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4163, 25 November 1884, Page 3
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