DROWNING.
A melancholy case of deowning occurred yesterday afternoon in the Waimata River, some distance up and near the apple trees, whereby a man named J. Sinclair, manager of the boot shop of Hannah & Co., at the corner of Peel Street and GPds one Road, lost his life, the deceased was withso ne companion and while bathing in the river was observed to suddenly disappear. All efforts at the time to regain the body were fruitless. This morning about 3 a.m., the police started to drag the river for the body,and a party consisting of Messrs. Ludlow, Parnell, Quigley, and Sam Stevenson went to the scene of the accident shortly afterwards, and succeeded in getting the body. The deceased who suffeied from heart disease, was about 40 years of age and had recently arrived from Wellington, where he leaves a widow and five young children. It seems that the local authorities have no grappling irons, and that it was owing to the exertions of the gentlemen above named that the body was rescued so promptly. An inquest is being held this afternoon.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 310, 15 December 1884, Page 2
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182DROWNING. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 310, 15 December 1884, Page 2
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