FATAL, BOAT ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 273, 22 October 1883, Page 3

FATAL, BOAT ACCIDENT.

Three Men Drowned. . ; 7 . i (Bt TsLßOßipn.) r ■;. " j M^ftriftiHnfc pbbss 'issbbiiifibK.). « ; Napikb, October 21. ■ resulting' > m the deathtbf three young' 'men, and aecbm--pam'id'by' nnusually harrowing details, occurred m the inner harbour on SaturTday At about 4 o'clock six young men named 'James Steward* »*^exaiider^-Stewart, Arthur— J)ixon> William Meek; William Delshsye, and Georga^eerc.eb, borrb^edya failing boat j-pjjjo^had not a very good reputation^haying previously capsized. When » duhrjer of ainile from land. a aqusll St|uck th^boat and capsised her. James 1 Swrart;' ans Dixon swam ashore to, scmplssfstahce, thi i other foUr occupants getting safely on4o the keel ofthe' overturued boat y Stewart and Dixon land^safely, and within a quarter bt an hOTf%walk of Poraiti sttftibn,but übfortunßtely4hey did not know the country, and stated td skirt tbe shore. After very nearly four hours very rough 'i travelling' they reached Faradale, and amounted constable :came on to toftfn , : >and gave the alarm, r when five boats set out to attempt a re°eue, but by this iime it **88*heai'ly -Wn 1 o'clock, For jl^J-yaVeftcurs a search whsikept up; •the find and rain h mng . .drifted tbe boat" a' long distance from' the scene of the accident. At last they found hei^p^icle dowilibutwilh thf'ee'occupants only. Qf these, Meek and Delahaye were^'oeid "from exhaustion ' and ex± posure, Stewart was unoonsciodsj M<H &fiaa was tftt td'be seen. -T^-day Stewart ~'reco*rered.. ; He states that affer^helifoymen I warn asboap,~the rema;pifrg;/o^ v stayed ,oirtfe boat for aometime. Meek was^a strong swim;{W mef^aia offered to' assist Bea^de^Vhc could nbtf swim, and the latter stripped. Just then a wave struck the beat, and ;j Wt?shed /^irof them off. Three of the fonr.-;r«ac.hed the ; boat again, but Reaw dan was never afterwards seen. Meek dived and cut away the rigging, and, the boat righted, but, there, were not meant of bailing her out. She floated with bef gunwale out of witer.' -About at hour aftetwards Delahaye becamejun' r and fell out of He boat, •' but ' 'was pulled back and' carried to j thf ;<r .jglep;' and , supported .by hi % s,comrkdei B ,V f !jj»p,^'sfa4-' / $e& Wcame un „ conscious and fell forward. Stewar! a 7, ijbjsd^teength left to pull him back again and supported 'his 0 head- above th< cm * jffit JH*! jhjßysoop_ died . Stewart wai untsonseiouaWen fbundT Delahaye. i I^^tv^^^Sf^'H?^- :^ , ' ,^* ?J * c " ,L " i '<HJß*»iL«al- m ■ Wellingtoi '* i,' .: !<s*ol* 7 'J^asit ir alsb; frdm f Wellington i a son of a schobjtioiaster here Beardcn'i body ii not yet recovered.