Drowing of Professor WALKER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 125, 3 May 1883, Page 2

Drowing of Professor WALKER.

: TELEQUAPH) (UNITED. . PBESS ASSOCIATION^),, i "•.-,. (A^Q^^ I**.1 **. May 2. .Professors Tucker add Walker of the Auckland University,- accompanied by a lad, name! Bydder, a^ son' ofc'Mr Bydde.r, proprietor of the Northumberland Bpardiriw»»hbn3e, went 1 ; oufc ?iFor tj,T sail m au open boat shortly after lunch I yesterday, although^ the weather wa3 : squally. The boat was a small one and, scarcely safe. When near the Ponsonby Reef and about one hundred o yards from land, the -boat gave a lurch, and 1 Professor ! Walker fell sprawling over to leeward -with ■'■• his arms over the: gunwale, and the boat* capsized. The boy swam to the shore, telling them to i strike out if they could swim, or otherr wise to hold to -the boat till he got assistance. Mr Tucker struck out for the boat and held on, but when he looked round 1 could noj'see Mr Walker, who must haye gone down at once. Three boy's saw the accident," and putting off m a dingy rescued iM.r'-Tucker before Bydder could return with aid. Mr Tucker was found clinging to the boat man insensible .condition, but he shortly recovered. The "Water Police searched tor the body of; Mr Walker, But were unsuccessful. He was single, and 26 years of age, and arrived by the Rotomadana, via the South, only a fortnight ago, and was to have occupied the chair of mathematics and raathemaU ical physics m Wellington University. Deceased was a Fellow of Queen's Oailes;e,Gambriidge,ani Second V^ra'ngler m 1879., , He c^ame here. Very highly re« commended. ; ' ' :1 A ,\.Lii