Drowning of Two Children.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1896, Page 2

Drowning of Two Children.

J The correspondent of the Wanganui ' Herald, writing from the Upper Waitouira under date August 20, gives the ' following particulars of a sad calamity, * occurring the day previous when the son and daughter, a^td nine and twelve rei spectively, of Mr Jumes Gillespie met i i heir death by drowning in the Waitotara River. They had been up the track some 2. 1 , miles iioui their home with 6tores for their father's camp, and were on their way back when the horse they were riding lost its footing and fell down a steep cliff into tho river, taking the children with it. Two brothers who were working T with their father on a high ridge some distance from the spot, bnt well in sight '. of i ; , miw the occurrence, and at once ' hurritd io the place. It took them quiie 3 hull' an hour to cover tbe distance, and 3 when liny arrived there were i:o nigns of liui children, and only the dead body of , the horse was visible. Assistance was l sent fur, and the work of recovering the ■ bodies was at once be^nn, but it was not until next morning that soino 14 or 1G soulers were c-ngHged iv the search t'mt j the bodies were recovered in some 17 fjtl jof water. ______