ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
[FEB PBB3S ASSOCIATION.) August 29. S iven seamen of H M.S. Archer were coming ashore in a sailing bout at seven o'clock this morning to takiofflast night's liberty men. A stiff" northerly wind was blowing, and when within 50 yards of the shore the boat capsized, fillt-d, and sank. The ran ware 20 miute3 in the water befare help arrived from the warship, and then two were missing—F. NibUrtand Fred Simpkin. Two others were unconscious aud had to be restored by artificial means. The party were taken back to theship, A cross-country howeman named Peter Williams, employed by the Hon. J. D. Ormond, die i at the Wellington Hospital from inflammation of the lungs supervening on influenza contracted at the recent Grand National Meeting at Riccarton,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 30 August 1901, Page 2
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129ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 30 August 1901, Page 2
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