THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY.
[Bt Telegraph.! (onited phess association.) Pongarehu, 26th November. Everything here is very quiet at present. A change is expected early next week. Tho men are employed in carting ranpo and toitoi from the pah into tho camp to build oook houses and wharea in the new camping ground. SHOCKING BOAT FATALITY. + HUSBAND AND 'WIPE DROWNED. [Bt Telegraph.] united prssB association.] New Plt mouth, This Day. Yesterday morning a fatal boat aooident occurred on the Waitara river, resulting in the death of William Ody and hia wife. They, with their little ohild about seven months old, were in a sailing boat on tho river, tho wife steering, when the boat "jibbed," and the mainsail knocked her overboard. Mr. Ody jumped into tho river after his wife, who clung to hist, and after a struggle, they were drowned. The man's body was reoovered three hours afterwards, but up to a late hour last night the woman had not been discovered. The child was ia the boat, and was recovered alive. Later. The body of Mrs. Ody was picked up thia morning on the Waitara River bank, a little below tho old cattle wlnrf. Tho husband was from Greymouth, and ha\ for some time been trading to the West Coast from Lyttelton. The ohild has been adopted by a settler at Waitara.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 127, 28 November 1881, Page 2
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222THE NATIVE DIFFICULTY. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 127, 28 November 1881, Page 2
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