BOAT ACCIDENT TWO MEN DROWNED.
[BY TELEGRAPH, PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Westport, Monday. A boat, containing Daniel MoLeod and Flutty, capsized in the surf on Sunday afternoon, and both men were drowned. The steamer Wanganui, in going out, noticed the men clinging to the keel of the boat, and returned to port and reported the accident. Boats then went to the scene of the accident on the South Spit, and found oars, poles, and 6sh on the beach, the boat anchored in the surf, full of water, and each sea breaking over it. It had evidently capsized on the bar, through throwing the anchor out. Both bodies were found about 10 o'clock on Sunday night. The men had gone out fishing in the morning. Captain Saldon would have lowered a boat, but the sea was too high. Deceased were well and favourably known in tbe district. McLsod was proprietor of the wharves previous to their purchase by the Government. SlcLeod was a. natrre of Nova Scotia, and Fletty of Akaroa, Canterbury. Both leave large families, all provided for.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5498, 1 July 1879, Page 5
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