THE COOK OF A SCHOONER DROWNED.
New Plymouth, This day.
Intelligence has reached town from Waitara that the cook of the schooner Colonist, having lost his passage, took the harbor-master's boat from her moorings for the purpose of crossing the bar and catching the vessel, which had left fifteen minutes previously. On reaching the bar the boat capsteed. The man clung to tho boat and drifted seawards. The signalman, seeing tho accident, ran up a distress signal, but, finding it was not answered, immediately gave the alarm to the harbormaster, who at once proceeded in a boat to the man's rescue. The sea, however, was too heavy, and the harbor-master returned to get up steam in the steamer Moturoa, during which time the man was drowned. The Moturoa went out, and the man's body was recovered during the afternoon.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3725, 23 June 1883, Page 3
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