TIMARU.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3191, 12 May 1879, Page 2

TIMARU.

r y fT/" p- Til i"\ r""V')|., ./Friday.' CeiptfLm pbeaie; of JtW barque Edwin Fox, had a narrow escape from drowning to-day. He was coining ashore in a bdat manned by three^ofhia ship's crew, when the boat capsized in the surf, about; a > hundred yards from shore.^ All the men were thrown into {the watei", and Captain Phease'i4eg v n'arfng csugtt in the tilljer rope, he experienced some difficulty in disengaging himself. When he had set - bimself free from the rope h*e~was "fejry near, exhausted, haying been fotf some under ttie 'waier. TBiit with the desperate determination' of. a drowning man he commenced to swim ashore. The » other men: ■ Were swimming all 1 ther^ime. One had received a nasty cut on the head bystriking against the-boat. The acci^ dent was' observed -on :bpard the 'Edwiri' ; Fox, and the life-bbajt;of that yessel'was launched, but before it bad time to reach the drowning men they were gayed,by a ■ b6at from the *s^()re,-; 'which picked' them up in a very exhausted state. The condition, especially of Captain Plieasey Who was further injuredl by 1 knocking his legs against the reef,; when landing was very bad. ' There'wail a heaty surf on at the ■time/--' ■■■■'1//);-" v'"'->"1:^ f- i!!<r;'-';;;■;■: ■