STRANGE BOATING ACCIDENT.
A MAN DROWNED.
(by telegraph.—press Association. )
X -X • / -X, Napier, thia day. Donald McKay, licensee of the Wesb Give Hotel, was drowned in '} the !Ngaruro River yesterday/
!' McKay,' together with another man named'ThomasHunb," went fishing. -They rowed down the- _Ng;ar*_roro River, and into the bay for about a mile in the direction of? Kidnapper's./ McKay acted yery strangely in the boat, throwing the bars overboard and rocking the boat so thab ib capsizedi precipitating both men: into the water, When Hunt canae to the surface he was near" the boab, which was bofctop v pwardsj but. McKay only appeared, on the surface once, a_d .was never seen alive after. The body wai Bubsequently recovered." An inquesb is proceeding.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 65, 18 March 1895, Page 2
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