TELEGRAMS

Grey River Argus, 12 April 1912, Page 6

TELEGRAMS

A SAD FAfALITY.

— » .• — • MAN AND BOY DROWNED. (Per Pres3 Association.) GISBORNE. April' 11. A sad double fatality occurred to-. day resulting in the death of an unknown man and a boy named Gordon Brown. It appears that the- man and Gordon Brown and another boy named Fredrick Allen were fishing; on the Groyne when a heavy sea swept them into the water. Allen was rescued by means of a life line thrown by a man named George Cosell. A dredge hand named Hewitt Douglas pluckily dived into the boiling surf and attempt ed the rescue of Brown. .He reached him but was unable to bring him ashore as he was entangled in the fishing line he had been using and Douglas had to let go in order to save himself. The unknown man *s about 30 years of age and his identity is unknown up to the present. Deceased Brown is the son of respected parents. Up to a late hour the bodies had not been recovered. The accident has cast quite a- gloom over the town. GISBORNE, April 11. A man named Goatley, who has been employed as a wharf laborer, is missing from the Strand Cafe where he lias been staying, and as it is known, that ho intended ' going fishing this niiorning it is almost certain he was the unknown victim of the drowning fatiUty at Groyne. Goatley is supposed to have come from Melbourne and has been in Gisborne about 5 weeks. •