FATAL OCCURRENCE—TWO MEN DROWNED.

West Coast Times, Issue 703, 25 December 1867, Page 2

FATAL OCCURRENCE— TWO MEN DROWNED.

(FROM THE WESTPORT IiEDGER.) There was a report in town on Sunday moi-ning, that two men had been drowned in the Nile^. On proceeding to that river we found that the report was unhappily too true. It appears that the two men who have thus been so suddenly called away, were fishermen living at the mouth of the Nile, on a patch of ground which they had laid out and cultivated as a garden, their names being Peter Anderson and William Appal, both, itis said, Norwegians by birth. They were last seen alive on Saturday evening, drinking in the Casino, and are supposed to have proceeded home about midnight, entering their boat — a small flat-bottomed affair, and set to work in tho river with their nets, as they often did of a night. The boat appears to have capsized, for it was found next morning bottom up, the body of one man close to floating almost upright, apparently entangled in the net, and the body of the other lying stranded on the ashore. The whole were in the bay formed by a sharp bend of the river, just below the

bridge on the Buller side. Mr Seaton, commg from Westport, about eight o'clock on Sunday morning, was the first to observe the bodies and give information to the police, who at once proceeded to the spot and had them conveyed to tho Camp, where an inquest was tobe held yosterday evening. It is singular that no cry appears to have been heard by any one about the timo the fatal occurrence is supposed to have taken place.