BOATING FATALITY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2284, 1 March 1887, Page 2

BOATING FATALITY.

(BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Invercargill, Sunday. On Wednesday morning Jas. Brokenshaw (fishmonger), John Carter (fish-hawker), Jas. Moodie (late manager of an oyster cutter), rnd Gavin Morris left Invercargill in a ship's lifeboat with the intention of fishing outside the Heads and returning with the evening tide. They were seen outside by the crew of another boat, and were then all right; but shortly after it came on to blow strong and gusty from the S.W., and the crew of the latter boat was enforced to beach on Ocean Beach, at the back of the Bluff. Nothing since has been seen of Brokenshaw's boat, and it is feared that is capsized, and that all on board were drowned. It is said that the boat, which should bare had about a ton of ballast, had only two hundredweight. The men had no provisions with them. A hope is entertained that they may have been blown across the straits, biit the wind has been northerly since. Other oyster cutters have arrived without any tidings of the missing men. Brokenshaw was married, and has four children. Carter, who recently returned from Kimberley, and was formerly a shipmaster, was a widower, with four children. Morris (one of the Big Bay party) was married, but had no family. Moody was unmarried.