DROWNING FATALITY.
AT THE ISLANDS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. News was received by the Mount from Fiji to-day of a drowning case. About two weeks ago a young man named Cowarty went to Mr. Fisher's place at Buea Bay and purchased an 18-foot sailing boat, in which, he, with a Fijian, left for Natewa Bay. A squall w:;s encountered before that place was reached, and the boat was capsized and sank about a mile oft' shore. The Fijian succeeded in reaching the land in an exhausted condition. He reported that Mr. Cowarty could not swim, and though he (the native) did everything he could to save him he had finally to let him d'rown in order to save himself. Mr. Fisher states that Cowarty was a Mew Zealander. He was about 25 years old, and had been in Fiji about three or four months only.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 132, 13 September 1910, Page 5
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147DROWNING FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 132, 13 September 1910, Page 5
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