Double Drowning Case at Raglan.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 246, 19 October 1886, Page 3

Double Drowning Case at Raglan.

[BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Hamilton, this day. Particulars of (he drowning accident at Itaglan on Friday show that Robertson, Prior, and Wilson were coming down the harbour under sail when the boat missed stays in a squall and turned over, throwing the occupants; into the water. Robertson clung to the boat but the others started to swim for the couth shove. Prior got exhausted and sank. Wilson gained the shove and went to seek assistance at lcakau station The last ho saw ot Itobcrtson was his still clinging to the boat. A search party recovered the'body of Prior within a chain from the shore, but Robertson was not found, lhc accident is attributed to inefficient handling ot the boat and having a fixed boom. Prior was the son of a Loudon banister. He had been liv c or six years in t' c district farming. He loaves a widow and three children. Robertson was an old settler, occupying 3,000 acres of land. He leaves a wife und large family of young children. ____———

""A preliminary meeting of the Auckland Temperance Hotel Company was to have takon place to day at Borsboom s, late L/offise Palace, but was adjourned till two o clock to-morrow.