GREYMOUTH.
Thursday. On Monday evening Michael Kinsell, a miner, accompanied by Mrs Margaret Mclnerny, of Nelson Creek, and her two children, and a young woman named Bridget Fitzsimmons, who was engaged to Kinsell, left the foot of Nelson Creek in a canoe to.cross the river to Blackball Creek. Not having reached their destination, a search party was formed, who, in their searches yesterday, found the canoe, bottom up, with a woman's skirt on it. It is supposed that the girl Fitzsimmons, who could swim, had clung to the canoe, and afterwards attempted to reach land, but failed to do so. The body of Mrs Mclnerney was found this morning; The other bodies are being searched for. It is certain the whole party have been drowned.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2644, 29 June 1877, Page 2
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125GREYMOUTH. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2644, 29 June 1877, Page 2
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