DROWNED ON THE WAITARA BAR.
(per united press association.) New Plymouth, June 22. Intelligence has reached town from Waitara that tbe cook of tho schooner Colonist, having lost his passage, took the boat from her moojing3 for tho purpose of crossing the bar anil catching the vessel, which bad, left fifteen minutes previous. Ou reaching the bar the boat capsized. The mau clinging tolho boat drifted seaward. The signalman, seeing tho accident, ran up u distress signal, but finding it whs 1 not answered immediately gave the alarm to tho harbourmaster, who at onee procei'dcd iu a boat to the man's ie-eue. r i : lic ;■•'•« was, however, 100 heavy, and lhe lMrboui'm:.\:tei' leUirned to get ui> stiiam in tUa s.s. Moturea, iln: -n " ."liieh time tho mm w.ia drowned. The MotuiXt wont out, 'mil the :i).in'» bo'lywi-rwivon-d r|ii-,-m« >'„■ A\u-r\ioor.,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10229, 23 June 1883, Page 2
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139DROWNED ON THE WAITARA BAR. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10229, 23 June 1883, Page 2
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