Fatal Boat Accidents
ITKB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION, j Dunedin, This Day. An Arrowtown telegram says there is every reason to belieye a fatal boat accident occurred at the head of Lake Wakatipu on Boxing Day. A boat containing Fredk. Williams, Elizabeth Forsyth, Katherine and Margaret Greig, and Jos. Oliver, left Kinlock to cross to Glenorchy where sports were being held. They never reached their destination, and now it is certain the boat capsized, and all the occupants were drowned. The police chartered a steamer, but no trace of the bodies haye been found. Invercargill, This Day. Those drowned in the boat fatality at the head of lake Wakatipu were Joseph Olive (aged 28), Frederick Forsyth (24), William Forsyth (20), Lilly Forsyth (19), Katie Greig (19), Maggie Greig (17). The boat was a small one. A fresh wind swamped it off the Dart river, which flows from the gorge. A search was made and the boat found bottom up at Long Island. There is no trace of the bodies, and it is improbable they will be recovered as the water is a great depth where the accident is supposed to have occurred. Hobaht, December 29. Three men named Jones, McDonald and Rennie, and two girls, Jones and McDonald, were drowned in Impression Bay by the capsizing of a boat.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 82, 30 December 1890, Page 2
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