BOAT ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE.
Invercargill, July 18. The Maori arrived from the West Coast at 8 a.m. She reports arriving at Big Bay on the 16th, and while there Mr rl. Fisher informed .them that while out shooting along the beach to the northward, he found a tent, boat, and blanketß five milea up fche harbor, and further on found the body of a atranger. Fisher then returned to fche camp for assistance, and at next morning returned fco the scene of the accident and found the bodies of Andrew H. Williamson and James Dalziel. Removed the bodiea above high water mark ; and reported the circumstance to Captain Drenchley, of Martin's Bay. A search partyfiwaa organised and the beaches searched, and the bodies of James Dalziel or Yell, arid John Gabriel, found. The bodies were buried, and further search made but without success. | It appears thafc the deceased party had sailed from Jackson's Bay in an open boat, deeply laden, wifch a quantity of tools, and been upset on a reef outside Big Bay. Yell leavea a wife and four children. Gabriel haa a wife and family in Nova Scotia. j Cronapki, whoße body haa not been recovered, leavea a wife and family. The stranger is supposed to be Dr. Branschon.
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Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3097, 19 July 1878, Page 2
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213BOAT ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE. Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3097, 19 July 1878, Page 2
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