A BOY DROWNED.
This morning a lad named Charles Morris, about twelve years of age, was drowned .vhile fishing from the Chelsea Wharf. It appears tbat Morris was sent over to Chelsea to deliver a message, and while waiting for the return boat be began fishing. Shortly before twelve o'clock he was seen to fall over the wharf by a lad named Benjamin Poole. Poole rail to the end of the wharf, but before he reached it the boy Morris bad sunk. This afternoon Constables Bezar and Oliphant went over with appliances to drag for the body.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 253, 1 November 1897, Page 5
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97A BOY DROWNED. Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 253, 1 November 1897, Page 5
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