FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.

Mataura Ensign, 19 July 1906, Page 2

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.

SIiUYF.YINO PAKTY DUOWNF.i). Per United Press Association. WELLINGTON, duly IS. .News was received to-day from Kuramea that Sevensen. of the scow Uungi, with two of the crew and a young man mimes donas Hunter, was capsized out of the boat while sounding the bur and were drowned. Seversen leaves a widow and family in Wellington. Hunter was an engineer by trade, and was living witli his parcuts.

WICSTPORT, duly Is A. sad accident tool; place at Kuruinea this afternoon. Four men-Cap-tain Scvcrscn. Frausi-u (mate), iv ik| seamen ltobert Wilson and donas Hunter—were drowned. Thcv were out sounding on the bar. when a breaker caught, and swamped their craft, and they shortly afterwards disappeared from view. Their bodies have not vet been recovered. Particulars are meagre, but it is understood that Sey. erseii and Fraiison belonged to a scow, possibly the ilaere. Hunter was tieson of a well-known engineer. a resident of Kamai-n, duly hi. lie- men drowned at Knnimcn were for the time being employed by the Public Works Department. Thompson, a surveyor, had for some time been surveying- in pursuant of a scheme of harbor improvement. jle had returned here, when he was ordered to obtain bar soundings, and was advised to obtain a ship and sailors [or the work. The men drowned were those he engaged. I