FATALITIES
A fatal boat accident occurred at Gisborne yesterday afternoon. An old identity named George Ncsbitt and three boys, Claude and Gordon Morgan and Edward Featon, had been out in the bay in an open boat fishing, and were returning across the bar when a wave Bwamped their craft. The three boys were washed ashore, but Nesbitt got out in mid-stream. The driver on the harbor works, Alexander M'Given, pluckily swam to his assistance, and with the assistance of another boat the old man was brought ashore. He never recovered consciousness, and after an hour's attempt at resuscitation life was found to be extinct. Mrs Wannop was found dead in bed at her residence in Parnelf yesterday morning. Deceased, who was thirty-five years old, was married, and leaves several children. An elderly man named Kinnearney was found dead at Northcote in a house where he had been living by himself. Patrick Keogh, a farmer, died suddenly at Waipipi yesterday. MASTERTON, December 19. William Everett, an old Opaki settler, had a narrow escape, yesterday at the railway crossing. The cow-catcher of a passing train lifted his horse out of the buggy. The animal was fatally injured, but the driver escaped with a shaking.
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Evening Star, Issue 7797, 19 December 1888, Page 2
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