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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1587, 19 January 1884, Page 3

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HBHBPge section of Sydney society yesterday afternoon (says tho pPpiey.News.of,2oth December) by which ti young gentlemen met with a fearful and untimely end. It appears that tor some time past the unfortunate ; gentleman (Mr Cuthbert Fere Lysaglit) ..:. has. boon.in the habit ongoing for a . swim at noon in tho Parramatta River ' flt'Fivo Dock Bay, and yesterday after- , noon about 1 o'clock ho was seen by ut boy wlio was in tho water to walk along the wharf with a towel across bis shoulder. This boy next saw him . undressed, standing on the end of the '. wharf, ready for a dive, The boy him- ■ Self then went under, and, therefore, . did not see Mr Lysaglit enter tlie , water, and when bo came up the young man was nowhere to bo scon; and, having bathed sufficiently, tho boy camo out and wont on to the wharf to dress. Almost immediately be saw, about 20ft in the water from the end of tho wharf, r Mood rising to the surface. Guessing had taken place he rushed up to ft house, which is near, and raised the alarm, and soon a number of people were busy dragging for tho recovery of • the body, Informmation was sent to the police, and a number in a launch at onco went to tho scene of the accident, Their efforts were not rewarded till about 4 o'clock, when Messrs Froggett and Thompson succeeded in hauling the body to the surface. Dr Moffat, of the Gladesvillo Asylum, who made aa examination, gave his opinion that it was the work of sharks, The body was conveyed to tho works oi which'deceased was the owner—tho Blackwall Galvanised Iron Works, near Gladesvillo; and it was there found that the left arm and the left side down to the hip bad been torn off, and the heart and lim„'s, &c, eaten out, The city coroner did not deem it necessary to- hold an inquest, The father of the young man is now on his way out from England by steamship. It has for years past been well known that that part of the Paramatta river is infested by sharks of a most voracious! kind, and warnings have been repeatedly given to people of the dangor of bathiii" in these waters, but in utter disregard of such a fearful instance the practice is still indulged in to a dangerous extent,