Two Girls Drowned.
■ . BragqiN, Febrnaiy 14, ; A distrpssin!> bathing accident occulted at Hooper's Inlet, Peninsula, 4 family named Storar iv ere fJ.QTPn (jjerp for a holiday, Agnes and i, mia, about 30 an(J 21, yenf to r"WW"'he W*' bathe, :They ---v»iijre, but rent .yhieh runs,out to sea in returning they apparently became exhausted, as they were observed to sink. The father, who was-not far of, observed the occurrence, and immediately rushed in, but was swept away by the current, ■ and. narrowly escaped himself. Onetbody lias been recovered. The viitims were two line healthy girls, and in the regatta tbey came in second in the - ladies' race. The father is : a caretaker in the National Insurance office, :
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3130, 15 February 1889, Page 2
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116Two Girls Drowned. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3130, 15 February 1889, Page 2
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