FATAL ACCIDENT.
WkuiHgxon, August 6. ■The Under-Secretary for Native Affairs has received a telegram from Mr Bishop, Resident Magistrate at Mongonui, that George Wyatt, a storekeeper at Kawewa, wont out fishing with three Natives, ■when the boat capsized, and Wyatt and a Native named Temorenka were drowned. Two persons were saved, Ringi Rawinanui, a native, and Tai Rawohai, a ha'fcaaU. The latter two were many hours in the water, and considerably knocked about. Wyatt clung to the boat for half an hour, but was washed off. Ha ould not swim. The people on shore were powerless to help. It is not stated how the. other two men were saved, but it is presumed that they clung to the boat, which must have been washed ashore. A later telegram from Raweni says that the boat drifted over a mile north, and then in shore with tho tide. One man stuck to it till it smashed up on the rocks.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1773, 7 August 1888, Page 3
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158FATAL ACCIDENT. Temuka Leader, Issue 1773, 7 August 1888, Page 3
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