ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association),
WELLINGTON, October 30. Charles McDonald, a carpenter by trade, unmarried, was drowned at Island Bay yesterday. Be and three- other men named Jones, Samuel McMillan, and Alfred Lason, bad gone out- fishing in a small boat early in the morning to a little island in Island Bay, and on the return journey their boat was swamped, there being a heavy swell on, and then capsized. McMillan and Lason clung to the boat, and Jones and McDonald, who were brothers-in-law, started to swim towards a yadbt moored close by. Jones reached the yacht, but McDonald, becoming exhausted, or being seized with cramp, sank and was drowned. The body has not yet been recovered.
DUNEDIN, October 30
Joihn Blackwood (aged 64) was found dead in his house an Union Street early this morning. Death was apparently due to bemonrbage otf the lungs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12641, 31 October 1905, Page 5
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146ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12641, 31 October 1905, Page 5
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