SCOW CAPBIZED AND FOUR DROWNED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 221, 1 October 1901, Page 2

SCOW CAPBIZED AND FOUR DROWNED.

[per press assooiatiok.J Gisbobnk, September SO. News has been received from Awanui that the scow Wakapai WU floated off, but capsiz d bit ween But Island and tb« mainland. Tbe crew clung to her for two hours, and wen wasl<ed off, four, including Captain Bonner, being drowned. One pot ashare safely. Maoris are searching for the bodies. Captain Bonner, who was wellknown in Gisborne, was for some time ; second officer of the Union Company's | K.ia Ora. By a strange coincidence hit father, who was master of the wow Oban, lost her in Feloras Sound a week or two ago, and with another son had r o cling to the capsized vessel for several hours before they were rescued. There are no Europeans living in the vicinity, and the bodies will probably be buried where they are found, with* out an inquest. It i' impossible to aa< certain the names of the crow hen, for though they opent several weeks at Tok'jmaru and became well-known, nobody s»ems to have inquired their names. ! A blaoksmitb named ])>ulle joined 'he vessel at Tok>tnaru with tbe intention of working h ; s passage to Auckland, and it is believnd he is drowned. Tha passage between East bland and the Capo is narrow and dangerous. It is thought Burner los l . control of the vessel and was driven in there. The accident took'place within eight of the lighthouse, but the keepers would be umble to render any assistanoe. Bjnner had only been married five months. His wifti resides at Nelson. Later. A message from Tokomaru state* that the fol'owing were the crew Charles Bonner, master; Charles Bertie (s.imetimes called Fiadlay), a Scotchm«n, the male, who answers the description of the man saved; Barney, a Scandinavian eail'H; Harry, the disk, a German; and Thomas Doolie, bladesmith, belonging to Hawke'a Bay.