TWO MEN DROWNED.
SAl> END TO AN OUTING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Oamaru, Last Night. A drowning fatality occurred to-day by which Robert Finlayson, a settler at Redcliife, and D. Byers, employed in a bank at Waimate, lost their lives'. A shooting party of eight were out on the Waitaki river, and were crossing to an island in a boat, when it capsized.. A'l hands were thrown into the water, which was 1 deep and running swiftly at the place. Six of the party managed to get on to a spit after being carried down the rrver for about o()0 yards, but Finlayson and Burgess were not seen again, and it is feared they were drowned and carried down the river. Search parties discovered no trace of them.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 47, 4 June 1910, Page 5
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127TWO MEN DROWNED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 47, 4 June 1910, Page 5
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