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Temuka Leader, Issue 2572, 24 October 1893, Page 4

Sad Boating Fatality. A very lamentable boating disaster in the upper part of Waitemata,' Auckland, resulted in the drowning of five personß, three of them women. A party, Mrs Ann Baillie, her daughter, her son James, and a friend named Mrs Herd, belonging to Eemuera, left Hobsonville for Whau creek in a boat A strong South breeze was blowing at the time, and the boat capsized. Mrs Baillie's other son, John, went to their rescue, but he disappeared, and it is believed he also was drowned. The boat was found bottom upwards. Mrs Herd was a friend of the family oa a visit to Hobsonville.

RRIVALOFTHE NEW WATERBURY. It is not often that the arrival of a shipment of goods in New Zealand waters is so generally welcomed aa the arrival of the present parcel of Waterbury washes- By the fire on the Ruahine 30GO Waterburys—gold, silver, and nifekek—were destroyed, and this interruption in the regular inflow has keep the market bare till the landing of the present parcel. The Hon. Dr. Pollen stated in the Legislative Council that 95,000 Adult Males. pays the whole of this colony's taxation, maintains its Civil Service, runs its rsjjways and public works, and forms the nucleus of tjje colony's properity; and yet to this very limited population over 120,000 Waterburys have been sold and delivered, and the shipment now landing consists of 2880 Wat «£KB anys, which is followed bv the Elinor Vernou, ' 2889 Mo»is, *v to the wholesale ir3.de, all sold ' - supplies for from who have been waitm & ■* as these three to four months. Lrirgu . iigures are, two other shipments are iu arrive before Christmas, and we venture to affirm that no other watch can show a sale in New Zealand during the period covered since the Waterbury advent of One to Each Hundred Watebbukys. Jewellers and retail dealers will kindly send their orders to our agents as quickly as possible. WATERBURY WATCH CO. Bond and Crawford Streets, Dunedin,