SAD DROWNING FATALITY.
POUR LIVES LOST. WELLINGTON, this day. An awful tragedy occurred at Karamea yesterday evening, accounting for the lives of Mrs. Theimer, two children, and a man named Hairy Harris. Accounts show that Dr. Theimer, his wife, and two children, went out from Kar&mea to spend some little time >... Oparara Beach, a couple of miles to the north. The doctor rode on horseback, hut Mrs. Theimer and family rode in a gig driven by Harry Harris. On the way home at six, the doctor forded the Oparara .his horse having to swim from the south bank of the river. He sank out to his wife that the tide was dangerous, and she had better go down-stream, where it was thought the watei was shallower. Harris did as directed, but when'halfway across the horse and gig got among qmicksand, or a "pot-hole," or something of the kind, and after a few splashes all disappeared. The body of Mrs. Theimer has been recovered . Search parties arc out:
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Taihape Daily Times, 2 December 1918, Page 5
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167SAD DROWNING FATALITY. Taihape Daily Times, 2 December 1918, Page 5
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