SUICIDE OF A SHIP'S CAPTAIN.
[BY TKLKttKAI'H.—PIIKSS ASSOCIATION". 1 Wrci.i.i.vcro.v, Friday. Mr Banks, chief officer of the *hip Opawa, which arrived from London Inst nipht, reports that on Sunday last Capt. Mathers, who had been ailing for ;i fortnight, jumped overboard and was drowned. A boat was lowered, and lie was picked np in less than 10 minutes, and restoratives were applied, but without avail. Capt. Mathers had been in the service of the New Zealand Shipping Company for many years, and was formerly in command of the Waimea, and visited this port last year in the Opawa, of which vossuls he still had charge at tin; time of the unfortunate occurrence, already referred. Ho leaves a wife and four children in London.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1952, 10 January 1885, Page 2
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123SUICIDE OF A SHIP'S CAPTAIN. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1952, 10 January 1885, Page 2
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