BOAT ACCIDENT AT AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 579, 21 May 1868, Page 4

BOAT ACCIDENT AT AUCKLAND.

Ik our issue of yesterday we slated that a 1 - ■ i at hud been piGed up oti Taylor - !: Island by the carter Catherine, whilst l oa her passage tr-au the Thames foi | this purl, and that there wee strung! reasons to fear that the boat had been capsized during tlie heavy weather on Thursday morning, and Uuu lives had been lost. Vve regret to say that the infoi mation which we have since gleaned leaves but lit tic doubt as to the fears entertained by us, and tiav one of our most respected tradesmen. Mr John Graham, has met with a woa ! untimely death by drowning. Inrun, the particulars which have come to our knowledge; it would appear that Mr Graham left the Queen street Wharf about seven o'clock, and subsequently made Lis boat last at the Wynyard. Pier. A war-naan named Caorgc Strong was on the pier at the time, and Mr Graham asked him if 1> couid find a boy to lake . Large of Lb beat for a simi-t time, Mr Strong' boy was immediately sent down, ami remained with the boat until haif-j> is : ten o’clock, when MrCrahani returned, and left the pier for Moto Ihi, Taylor sI.dand. The boy watched the boat! for seme time, and when about 200 j yards from the pier the sails were set,| and the boat was observed to prcwcedl down lue harbor. The byy then retired to his homo, but cu the following morning the boat, in which Mr Graham had left the pmr was found alongs : de, It is supposed that the wind fell light,| and Mr Graham decided to remain until the following morning. At about half-past seven a.m. be was seen bv Sir Conley, a waterman, to walk down the wharf and get into his boat, t'oor. after leaving the wharf, Mr Graham set loti) sails and made the halliards fast. The wind at the time was blowing fresh from N.N.W., and it was observed from the sltore that, the boat had as much sail on as she couid carrv, The wind continued to increase dariii fc the day, ami it is supposed that she must have capsized during a fierce

sgnnli, and that Mr Graham was! drowned. The boat was brought up! to town by the cutter Catherine, and has been taken round to Sniale’a P.dat. [With a hope that Mr Graham bad not |c-->me to this untimely death, Mr Wells, waterman, was sent down to the island of Mo to liii early- yesterday morning, where Mrs Graham was redd Mg. Wells returned to town last evening and states that Mrs Graham saw the boat capsize when about three miles from the island, but she w<*s not aware that Mr Graham was in the beat at the time of the mishap. W-lh made a cruise about the scene of the disaoer, but the body of Air Graham could not Sound. At 11 o’clock last nigh: t;u iitile steamer Gemini was despatched co Moto lai, with Mr Kirkwood and another geoticuian. Sju? is expected to return early this morning, when shall probably receive some fur*her intelligence of this m.-iancholy accident. —New Zealand Herald, M:>v 9. [From our tiles which a.e up to the doth hist., we notice that no fiuihcr intelligence had been received up to the evening of ike IT*];.]