TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 March 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

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Feilding, This Day

The residence of J. CampfJell, manager of the Mansonestate at Stan-way, was destroyed by fire and practically everything was reduced to ashes. There are very inadequate insurances and the loss is nearly £1000.

Whangarei. This Day

A holiday tragedy occurred yesterday afternoon at Parua Bay, twelve miles from Whangarei. Alfred B. Oatin, 28, of Whangarei, and Ernest Chaffey, a settler of Kamo, went to I'arua Bay on Thursday. Yesterday Thomas Ryan, a settler, arranged to take tEem for a trip in an auxiliary oil launch, and all started from the shore 'in a dinghy against the tide. Wlipii four boat lengths from the launch, the dinghy was swamped. Chaffey, an elderly man ,succeeded in swimming to the launch and with difficulty got aboard. He then threw ropes to Cann and Ryan, but they were too weak 'o secure them and were drowned. A fisherman hearing cries took off Chaffey. The bodies of the others were recovered. Cann was a traveller and had been in tlie Dominion for two years. He leaves a wife and four children in England.