SAD BOATING FATALITY.
Three Lives Lost
(By Telegraph.—Press Association]
Ihteroaroiil, Monday. Another lamentable boating acci> dent ocourred this: morning in the New River Estuary. ' A party of.young people had gone out in a large half-deoked boat known as the Irene, and it is said that the halyards fouling, one of the party, Lionel Bews. climbed the mtißt to clear them.
His weight oaused the boat to hei over, till and sink,
Three out of tiw six ocoupanl were drowned,
Thoir names nre't-Bessie Bain, 27 years of age, the eldest daughter of Mr J. W. Bam, ex-M.H.8.; Mabel Stow, 19, the only daughter of Mr Stow, of the Bank of New Zealand; and Lionel Hews, 22, son of the To.vn Engineer at Warranambool, Victoiia, formerly of Invercargill, _ ■ The other three, Peter Dalrymplo, junr,, Charles Eout, junr,, and Graco Bain were saved by a boat which came to the spot a minute or two too late to save all the party, Bews, who was an excellent swimmer, lost his life in the endeavour to tave the two girls. The three, bodies have been recovered,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4668, 13 March 1894, Page 3
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182SAD BOATING FATALITY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4668, 13 March 1894, Page 3
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