SAD DROWNING FATALITY.

Mataura Ensign, 4 July 1914, Page 5

SAD DROWNING FATALITY.

BRAVE ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. BY ELECTBIC TELEGR .£>H COPYRIGHT. PUR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received July 4, 9 a.m. LONDON, July 3. During a moonlight launch trip to Kew, the vessel when returning at three o'clock in the morning lurched off Battersea and Sir Denis Ansxm, a New Zealander, who recently succeeded his uncle, Rt. Hon. Sir-William Anson (w.lio was M.P. for Oxford University) fell overboard. Mr Mitchell, a member of the orchestra, jumped overboard though the tide was running strongly. Count Constantine Benckendorffj son of the Russian Ambassador, also jumped over, but was carried a.way and ultimately rescued in an exhausted state by a waterman. Sir Denis: Anson and Mr Mitchell •were drowned. Sir Denis Anson was a nephew of Mr A. F. Roberts, of Teviot Station, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained his "blue."