DROWNING CASE IN THE RAKAIA.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7736, 16 December 1890, Page 6

DROWNING CASE IN THE RAKAIA.

; V FINDING OF ANOTHEB BODY. \f.i $|£ police received a telegram yesterday fffnm : ty»gtfehla Lewis, at the Bakate, latafcliM that Albert Charles Carpeater, a ftafnTTT". ff fM;Ui thirty-one, brother of Bfrt Lavington station, Bakaia, drowned yesterday. He waa bathing ■mith two youths in the Rakala Biver : 9«atezday> at 11 a.m., seven mUes above ffce bridge, whea ne cangat in & whlrlTOoL aSd was carried away by the sfcffeamfite deseasad was followed £00 yai^J.acd eJghfcof owisg lo tfe« teaks. The searched to the bridge, bofc ,»© trace of the body was seen. Us Q«oige Shelloek, one of the ®e&rch|»rty, retornedat9p.m., sad repeatedfladtoKa Body, much decomposed, on the river bee, foor and a half miles above the bridge. Prom the description ifi is bellevea tote that of Peter Chey&e, who inn recently reported missing. ■ jßeter Cheyne was a man abemt thirtyAye or forty ye&rs of age, ssid was uas aeen about the Ist November last;, at Highbank station, Metaven, where he had been working for the past ten years. H* somewhat &&a It was feared he had been drowned while trying to cross the B&kaia River opposite tie .Hlghbank station. Cheyae's father is master of the Bay scbooL The police brong&t fete body into Bakaia lttsteveDin& Up to a late hoar last nigoß Carpentffir'ebody bad sot been foond.