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INVERCARGILL BOATING -FATALITY; ,■ .jBl- TTELEGIIAI'U:--I'ItESS ASSOCIATIOX.J • , i Invarcargill, April 24. Information now coming' to hand regarding the hurricane-blow: that-.causcd.the death of . the: fishing party off ; Riverton the other day indicates that the squat?was something out of -the■■ordinary.'? . . ■: f ■i Tho Ruapuke craft Raven met the storm, ■when attempting her usual .trip to tho'Bluff, south-west -of Dog. Island, aiiH without the slightest .warning-.the: squall 'struck her. Every stitalr ol'canvas had to be' taken , in, and the crew found great difficulty and some dangor m doing' so.-.lndeed, parts of the sails and' rigging were learned.: away,; and it .was impossible '■ for. : the' cutterto . keep on her course.--' therefore borer,away back for-the-island, bnt,:wlum:..off Cajoline Bay sho dipped forward,' "fand 1 -for-a.time it seemed as: though sho, would ■ bo.. unable . to right heTSelf, •'1 ho storm, howovor,' took off as suddenly- as it had, bogunj > and : within three hours the weather was quite placid; - The skipper of tho Raven, ono ot tho oldest :■ of tho JToveaux Strait 'coasters,. saya the storm was ono of tlio most sudden and i severe.ho has ever oxponouced.'' --No opon I boat could havo lived in it.\ ? y,, PRUSSIC ACID POISONING.' • Chrlstohurph, April 24. : ' A middle-aged : man ■ named •' <\f illiara:,-' A. Lewis, a railway - labourer living in Sydenham, died ta-night from the eflects.of prussic | acidy tu'pposed to have been taken by him l this morning. :■ ..' ■ '.-'■ j. - yx TWO MINERS INJURED Auckland, April - 24. •■■■ , Two miners, named -Henry Shaiiby and Edward Quigg, who dustainod injuries: aa .the rcsiilt of a coal slip' in one of the Mercer mines tins afternoon, were admitted to tho- Hospital to-night. Shhnby is in a very critical' condition. ■....;. . .