News was brought into Pictoa on Saturday'last r that two deaths by drpwning?had taken' ptoe in the vicinity of .Blenheim. Tbe names of the unfortunate: men '.'•. were Dr Beasely and Mr Daivid , MainJ The MarlbproughJ&;nreflß..s^ijes' thatr the former was an'^accomp^ed^and .^tilled practitioner, !* h 9 c ame out >Js surgeon to ship .Halcionp, and lately ;tpok up. his residence in. y ßl^nhjsim, wherd' hto _JBkill and| J urbanity were securing for 'Him! a large and increasing practice,' T It is repotted that, on the. day he met with bis death he had been called* to attend a man living at the -Boulder Bank; and.- on his way had to; cross ,a ; small bridge. .-Hishorserefused to .cross, and the- rider, in trying to JTgo forward » got it upon the bridge, when W.iWfiWg-.it- Went over the side, carrying the doctoriwith it^ falling oa him, and keeping him, under water Until he was drowned. The precise, manner in which Mr Maia was drowned has not been: ascertained, so far as ST?.-!%re,awate j. but it appears that he went Out to.look for some horses between the Big Bush and Blenheim, and got drowned in one of the large water-holes that are there caused by the overflow of the Opawa river;/
(]?or cpiiiimiaiion of JSews see 4&h page)
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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1621, 15 October 1873, Page 3
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