SAD BOATING ACCIDENT.
(by telegraph—press association). Oamaku, Tuesday. Two promising lads, aged 16 and 12, sons of Mr Thomas McDonald, manager of Coreida'c Estate, were drowned today in a waterhole on the Wairaka Creek, which flows close to the house. The lads were out in a flat-bottomed boat pulling about, when the boat capsized. The day was exceptionally cold, and before long both boys sank in about 20tt of water. The disaster was witnessed by two young ladies, whose cries- brought assistance in about ten minutes, but the water was dirty and it was impossible to do anything in the way of a rescue. The bodies remained in the water three hour*-, grappling irons having to be sent from Ngapara. It is supposed that the coldness of the water paralysed the efforts of the lads to save themselves, as both could swim.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 314, 14 July 1898, Page 2
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142SAD BOATING ACCIDENT. Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 314, 14 July 1898, Page 2
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