WELLINGTON, November 14. When the Gothic was nearing TeneI rifle an A.B. named Edward Hodges was washed overboard and drowned. IHe was working at the companion [ladder with several'others when a:bjg j'sea came aboard and took them'all | of. their feet. Hodges was .-carried [overboard, but the others managed fo I hold on and save themselves. A bosjt was lowered"but the search was unavailing.. ; ■ : WANGANUI, November 11.; A lad named Wilson, aged sevenyears, was drowned in the,river this j morning. He fell down the steps leadI ing to the river while, throwing st|cka in for a dog. ; . GISBORNE, Nov. 21 j The body of a young man named Thomas Atkins, baker, was picked up j in the river this morning by a Poverty Bay Rowing Club crew. Attempts at resuscitation failed. Deceased had half an hour previously left a group of men, saying "Good-bye" to-one, and ; that he would not be seen' again* H* had been driking heavily, ■ l
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 278, 23 November 1899, Page 5
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