BOAT ACCIDENT.
(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, June 12. News has just been received of a sad accident at Tologa Bay, A boat with passengers (Mrs Kirk and three children) was landiDg from the s.e. Australia, when the boat capsized. Another boat from the shore went to the rescue. This boat was also capsized, and the ocenpants drowned were Constable Stttgpoole, two natives, and Mr. J. J. James. A telegram received in Wellington this morning by Mr. Stagpoole, father of tbe supposed drowned man, states that it is believed he was picked up by the steamer Australia. Stagpoole is known to be a strong swimmer.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1649, 13 June 1887, Page 3
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