FATAL ACCIDENT.
(BY TKLEQEAPU—PRKS3 ASSOCIATION.)
HEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Yesterday morning a fatal accident occurred on the Waitara river, resulting in the death of Win, Ody and his wife. They, with their little child, about seven months Id, wore in a sailing boat on the river, the wife stoering, when the boat "jibed," and the mainsail knocked her overboard. Ody jumped into tho river after his wife, who clung to him, and, after a struggle, they were drowned. The man's body waa recovered three hours afterwards, but up to a late hour last night the woman's had not been. The child was in the boat, and was recovered alive. The body of Mrs Ody was picked up this morning on the Waitara river bank, a little below the old cattle wharf. An inquest will be held at one o'clock. Won Ody, who was drowned at Waitara yesterday, waa from Greymouth, and had for some time been trading to the West Coast from Lyttelton. The child has bcec adopted by a settler at Waitara.
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Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3529, 28 November 1881, Page 2
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