WAITARA.
This day Sad Boat Accident.
Four Men Drowned,
A boat manned by seven hands left the railway wharf for Mokau at 4.30 this morning with the necessary gear for launching the Hannah Mokau. Whilst crossing the bar here she filled and foundered, four of the hands being drowned. The names are Benjamin Gollop, Harry Tale, Fred Archer, and George Turrell. Gollop leaves a wife and five children ; Tale was only four months married, and Archer and Turrell were lately seamen on board the schooner lS Telson.
Lateb. Archer's body came ashore at 10. No others yet recovered.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3394, 7 November 1879, Page 2
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98WAITARA. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3394, 7 November 1879, Page 2
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