TROOPER LOST AT SEA.
WHILE TRYJXf! TO RESCUE 4 CIIILI). By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Particulars of the circumstances In which Trooper K. A Bayne, of the Wellington Mounted*, lost iiis life were,re- ■ reived on tlu* arrival of the Ruahine. As the steamer was about 151) miles from I'itt-iiitii Island on the uwning of Saturday, November 20, a baby, Thodore Edward Austin, aged two years and ten months, while alone in a cabin crawled toi a porthole, through whic-h it fell into the sea. Bayne, who was* leaning over the rail above the cabin, evidently saw the child fall, for he at once jumped overbeard to attempt a rescue. Illuminated buoys were thrown overboard and the emergency lifeboat was quickly launched, but a lengthy search failed to discover either the baby or the would-be rescuer. The place was infested by sharks, and some of them, ten feet long, were folloW' ing the lifeboat.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1916, Page 5
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154TROOPER LOST AT SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1916, Page 5
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