SAD DROWING TRAGEDY

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13145, 28 August 1914, Page 1

SAD DROWING TRAGEDY

AT PUYSEGUR POTNT. • (Por. Press Association.) JNVEKCABGTLL, August 27. ;£ News of a double, drowning .fatality. ii/the vicinity of Puysogur lighthouse readied town to-day, but particulars of the OPCiiiTCiic.c are necessarily meagre. The lighthouse-keeper at Puysegnr Point.announced by telephone' that the wife of one of the keepers being ill, a man named Smith wont to Coal Island in an open boat to nb tain the sci\icos of His Louden to nurso the sick woman. As the boat vas letuming it capsi/.ed, both passenger being diowned The body of: Mis Louden had been lccoveied Alien the news came tluough, but theie was then no nous of the ieooveiy of the body of Smith. A sonowful featuic of the tiagedy is that Mis Louden's husband, who employed on Coal Island, will have to bo communicated with by Moisc signals as soon as night falls.