Sad Boating Fatality.
o— I [Per Press Association]. Dunedin, March 30. Information has been received of a boating accident at Arden Bay, near St. Leonard's. Three men are supposed to have been drowned. Later. The body of William Gray, who was drowned yesterday morning at St. Leonard's, was found yesterday afternoon, and that of his brother, James Gray, to day. Nothing is definitely known as to the cause of the accident. The boat, wbich was a centre-board, is said to havo made a lunge which caused her to fill with water. She then sank. Had the occupants of the boat recalled the fact that they were only some thirty yards from the half-tide wall possibly all would have been saved. Nothing was seen of the brothers Gray, and they were probably entangled in the rigging.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 232, 1 April 1895, Page 2
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