DRINK AND DROWNING. Invercargill, April 5.
It iV almost' certain that two men lost thei.i li\cs in New Ri\er hurbour on Tuesday morn in jr. Mr Hatch's schooner Awama was lyinti borne miles below town, waiting a .slant to bail for Macquaiie Island. On Monday afternoon Harry Lmlson, seaman, and Andrew Scott, the cook, took the schooner's boat to go to Sandy Point toi water. They lei t the .shin's boat there, and taking anothei, came up to town, whcio they were sivn in sc\eial hotels during the evening. They weic on boaid a-\es-elai the jelly after 'midnight, and were under the influence of liquor. Shortly after they left to £0 to the boat, and ha\e not been .scon fcincc. This atternoon a fisherman coming np Ihe ri\er saw a boat at- lu»hWiitcr'inaik on tho eastern shore >\iththo mast broken. 'L'ho weather on Tuesday morning was extremely stoimy. Ludson, better known as Hairy ISeilson, wasn Norwegian, 38 years ; Scott was 21, and wa> a son ot John Scott, upholbteror, T.iy-stieot, who had t!ie misfortune to lose another .son by a gun accident a few years ago.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 7 April 1888, Page 5
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