DROWNED IN WELLINGTON HARBOUR.
[by telegraph.—press association.] Wellington, Monday. A young man named Frank Ross, aged twenty-seven, was drowned in the harbour at five o'clock this evening. He was a labourer on the hulk European, lying alongside the wharf, and in ascending from a boat on to the hulk he caught hold of the fender, which gave way, and deceased fell into the water, and never rose. The body was recovered twenty minutes later, but all efforts to resuscitate animation failed. The deceased was a single man.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9240, 18 December 1888, Page 5
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