Sad Boating Fatality.
(Per Press Association.) Port Chalmers, Aug. 30. The Rev Father Newport, of Port Chalmers, was returning from celebrating Divine worship at Portobello tbis afternoon in a boat manned by a man named J. Dougherty, together with three boys named Lawrence Ruddy, Thomas Pounds and Hugh Ruddy. They had got abreast of tbe Quarantine Island when the boat capsized, and they were all thrown into the watar. Boats put off to their aid, and the boys were landed on the island, where they are recovering, but Father Newport, who was unconscious, was brought to Port Chalmers, and evory means tried to restore animation, but without effect, as life was extinct.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1896, Page 2
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