SERIOUS BOATING ACCIDENT.
Thames, May 10. A melancholy boating accident occurred at the entrance to the Thames river yesterday. It appears that at about noon four men, named W. Rea, senr., W. Rea., jnnr., A. S. Colquhoun, and John'James, started from Tararu for Piako in an opeu boat, daring a severs north-westerly gale. The boat was not seen to capsize, but later in the day the master of a river steamer reported having observed wreckage at the Thames river. The boat was found bottom upwards in a mud channel this irmrniur, hut no sign of the oceupnit-', and no hope is enterfaifp d for their saf-ty, th nigh soils, fowling-pieces, rudder, and provisions have been discovered, The whole of the con}munity is astif, tiking part it) the spireh for the bodies. The three tiler ipeu were married, and leave families unprovided for, I
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1549, 11 May 1885, Page 2
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