TROOPER K .A. BAYNE.
LOST' AT SEA UNDER TRAUiC CIRCUMSTANCES. Per Press Association. Auckland, December 7. Particulars of the circumstances in which Trooper K. A. Bayne, of the Wellington Mmuiteds, lost his life wore received on ill© arrival of the | Rnahine. As tin- steamer was about 150 miles rfom Pitcairn Island on the evening of Saturday. November 25, a baby, Thodoie Edward Austin, aged two years and ten months, w hilo alone in a cabin crawled to a porthole, through which it fell into the sea. i Bayne, who was leaning over the rail above the cabin, evidently saw the child fall, for he at once jumped overboard to attempt a rescue. Illuminated buoys were thrown overboard ami the emergency lifeboat was quickly launched, but a lengthy search failed to discover either the baby or the would-be rescuer. The place was infested by sharks, and some of them, ten feet long, were following the lifeboat.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 12, 8 December 1916, Page 7
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155TROOPER K.A. BAYNE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 12, 8 December 1916, Page 7
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