SUPPOSED BOAT ACCIDENT.
As the Union Steamship Co.'s s.s. Pen. gum was coming into the harbor yesterday morning from Wellington, she sighted a boat floating near the lighthouse, which was secured and towed up to the screw pile jetty, and landed. When the boat was first found there were two paddles, a knife, fishing line and bait in her, and had evidently been used by some one for fishing. Mr John Haydon, the owner of the craft, moored her at the boat sheds in tbeinner harbor, and chained her out before leaving on Wednesday night. When he went down to gel he.* next morning she was gone, and the first intimation he had of her whereabouts was the news of the Penguin picking her up. It was impossible for the craft to get out into the stream with the strong wind that was blowing on Wednesday night, unle3s she was managed in some way, and the only solution to the affair is that some one had taken her from her moorings for the purpose of going fishing, and had fallen overboard. The police and all parties interested have been communicated with, and inquiries are now being made to clear up the affair.
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7159, 21 September 1888, Page 6
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