ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(PUSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, December 28. A gum digger named Wm. Maxwell was drowned in the Kaip_ra river. His boat ran on a sand spit, and oa being got off the jibboom struck Maxwell, who. steered, knocking lim overboard. Jackson, a gum digger, his mate, put about the boat, but carried past Maxwell, who sank. Eight bottles and two flasks of spirits were found on board, one bottle being empty, Jackson says the deceased was quite able to manage the boat, though he had taken some liquor. The deceased was a native of Edinburgh, and had no relatives in the colony. The body haa not been reoowred.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 8677, 29 December 1893, Page 6
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