Supposed Fatal Boat Accident.
Wo regret to learn that fears are entertained for the safety of a boat that left here on Sunday morning for the Miranda. The passengers were Mr McDonald, a settler over at the Miranda, and a boy named ftarry. When they left here there was a pretty strong breeze blowing, Yesterday Captain Freeman, of the coaster Lake Erie, who is a stepson of
McDonald's, arrived at the Miranda from Auckland, and was informed by a lad named Storey that he had seen McDonald's boat drifting in the direction of Coromandel, with no one in her. Freeman came over here yesterday, and hearing no word of McDonald telegraphed to Coromandel and Auckland, but received : no satisfactory intelligence. He set out ,to>6!ay in his boat to search for the missing men. With the facts above stated to hand there seems little, doubt, but that there lias been another fatal accident. McDonald is well known here, having been engaged for a long time in the coasting trade, and was at one time the owner of several coasting cutters. The boy Harry, is described as a late arrival. The boat was a whale boat, and was furnislied with a heavy sail, and it is stated that McDonald knew nothing of the management of a small boat.
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Thames Star, Issue 2519, 1 February 1877, Page 2
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216Supposed Fatal Boat Accident. Thames Star, Issue 2519, 1 February 1877, Page 2
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