A FISHERMAN DROWNED.
(By Telegraph.-'Press Association). Blenheim, Monday, A fisherman nainedFredcrick Douglas has been drowned in Queen Charlotte Sound. _ The boat in which he with his companion Pirro, was sailing up the Sound, when it capsized, They clung to the upturned boat, but a heavy sea was runuiug with a freezing cold southcaster blowing, and after about three and a-half hours' terrible suffering, and suspense, Douglas' limbs became numbed, and he slipped oil into thirty fathoms of wator. Pirro was rescued half-an-hour later, nearly exhausted.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4996, 8 April 1895, Page 2
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85A FISHERMAN DROWNED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4996, 8 April 1895, Page 2
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