A SAD CASE.
An unusually sail accident occurred on Saturday at Mokoia, by which a man named John King and his son (the father being in the employ of Mr George iiayley) were drowned. The facts as reported at the Police Station are as follow:—About 12.30 the boy asked bis mother for a towel, as he wished to bathe in a pond near to where his father.was working. After a little she, thinking the boy was rather long away, went to the pond, and seeing his clothes on the bank and neither father or son about, called Mr Baylcy, who, going to the pond, dived ami brought up the two bodies, in which life was extinct. The pond was twelve feet wide and seven feet deep. The only definite supposition that can be arrived at is, that the boy being drowning, the father tried to save him, but in doing so lost his own life together with that of his son. An inquest was to have been held to-day.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 981, 8 January 1883, Page 3
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169A SAD CASE. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 981, 8 January 1883, Page 3
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