MAN DROWNED AT WAITARA.
(per press association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 22. . Intelligence has reached town from Waitara that the cook of the schooner Colonist, having lost his passage, took the harbourmaster’s boat from her moorings for the purpose of crossing the bar and catching the vessel, which had left fifteen minutes previous. On reaching the bar the boat capsized. The man clinging to the boat drifted seaward.. The signalman, seeing the accident, ran up a distress signal, but finding it was not answered immediately gave the alarm to-the harbourmoster, who at once proceeded in a boat to the man’s rescue. The sea was, however, too heavy, and the harbourmaster returned to get up steam in the s.s. Moturoa, during which time the man was drowned. The Moturoa went out, and, the man’s body was recovered during the afternoon.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1051, 25 June 1883, Page 2
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138MAN DROWNED AT WAITARA. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1051, 25 June 1883, Page 2
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