DROWNING FATALITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 446, 5 January 1909, Page 2

DROWNING FATALITY.

The Picton Press publishes the, V following details'-of a fatality at Port Ififf ar oa Christ-, mas evening. One, of the ufafprtunate men, Wakefield,, is well-

known in the Foxton district." The accident occurred ‘ Whilst the men were. crossing the bay

from Bulwer to Port Ligar in Mat-

thew Nelson’s .Hunch, and his ,• ’ statement is.as fpllows :.*^r

Ou Christmas Day Black bee was at the house, j for ■ dinners andi during the day_he askid. me to run.., him and Wakefield to Port Ligar.

I consented^' r an'd^'When , 'W6 i, %ere' about half a mile" from Port Ligar Wharf Wakefield T said: '* Let’s % throw old Nelson, 1 overboard !-’ X- v; was then attending -to the engine.'' s'., Shortly afterwards I heard the two , men wrangling, and Blackbee told Wakefield, who was at the tiller, that he would throw him overboard. I told them to step. quar* V relling till they got ashore. I them “ ■?-* saw Wakefield catch . Blackbee - *y round the waist,, from behind, and J ' as both men were mad drunk they -;■* lurched sideways, went overboard, : i and sank. 1 reversed the engine *3-t\ and then stoppedrit*' but |oq|d not see anything- of r men had been drinking heavily - day, and were drunk whedi they s went on the launch. T had'had a > glass of beer, but was quileksober. Wakefield had been my Smate, i fishing for the Wellington market. ■ j Blackbee was employed by Mr'fe Henry Harris, and-was wbll-known f ; in the Sounds district. Wakefield - has a brother at Levin, but little is :known about him., Both menf f .• y«ere; unmarried, The bodies have£ fiot been recovered. ’ *

yNow : is tW. time to take a Oht into the country, on 'the m6tfpV/< tam»' and visit the seashore,, i' not forget to a bottle 01. C$JN&r 1 j S ; . beflain’s Colic, Cholera and Oianrhoea ' ■ Remedy along with you. it:is-{jlmost certain to b« needed and : cannot be ■■£ obtained ou railroads or steamships, dt is iV io much -of a risk for anyone to ■-. , < Vr lei'tj homo ou a journey withont iU ijjf b *sle cTery7riicre.~Ax>vl. <• • •» r- *- »*«# V ■V„‘| T'