BOATING ACCIDENT.
THEEE LIVES LOST. (BY TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORUESPONDENT.) KATIKATI, List Night. ) ATninea.ui. on Saturday, Mr Stewarts fishing boat attempted to cross the Katikati bar but when on the bar the boat was seen by Faulkner, a half-caste, to btoach to, and the seas swamped her. The crew consisted of Messrs George Stewart, son of Mr Vesey Stewart, founder .if the settlement; Frank Anderson, son of Mr Anderson, a respected settler ; and Robert Irwiri, a fisherman. They took to the rigging and apparently lashed themselves to the mast. Several seas covered them, and they remained in that position for seven minutes, when all of a sudden they disappeared. Search parties are out since, but no truces of tho wreck or bodies have been found. A hat supposed to belong to Anderson was found near the SC6DB. All the drowned men are married.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3125, 26 July 1892, Page 2
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142BOATING ACCIDENT. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3125, 26 July 1892, Page 2
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