THE BOATING DISASTER AT SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9497, 16 October 1889, Page 5

THE BOATING DISASTER AT SYDNEY.

A Sydney contemporary gives the following particulars of the sad boating fatality which occurred there on the 7th inst., as reported in our cablegrams :—

At about 11.30 o'clock the 22 feet halfdecker Irene, when oil" Bradley'u Heud, was capsized, and the whole of her 21 occupants thrown into the water. The .sailing boat Edith bore down to her assistance at once, as also did the steamer Brightsido, which was on a trip to Manly. The Brigh&side soon managed to rescue soveu of tho party, while the Editli also picked up a number of them, and took them to Bradley's Head, where they were attended to by the keeper of the Cattle Quarantine Station. Those who were picked up by the steamer were taken to Manly, and were found accommodation in the hotels until they had sufficiently recovered to be able to return to town. Two of those who were taken to Bradley's Head were, it seotns, the most exhausted of all. These were young women named respectively Nellie Thompson and Cis lnman. EtFons to restore them were made with all promptitude, bnt Miss Thompson soon succumbed to the effects of her imiiiersion. Her companion, however, began after a while to show signs of improvement. The party, we learn, when starting off from Press's boatshed, Woolloomooloo Bay, consisted of,the following persons : —Fully Fahey, Polly Stewart, Poll} , Jones, Kate Thompson, Ada Gilbert, Kitty Toope, May McCarthy, Cis lnman, Nellie Thompson, and Messrs. W. Golding, S. ford, C. Pople, S. Kirkputrick, 0. Adam, J. Johnson, E. Deuring, E. Croft, H. Jones, 11. Kippax, P. Stewart, and Herbert Croft. The body of Ada (Gilbert whs recovered by tho water police on Tuesday. In explanation of the immediate cause of the .sad event, Mr. 1.1. Croft, who is said to be thoroughly accustomed to .vailing a boat, says that* at the time of the capeize the main sheet was not made fast, but that while he was attempting to lot it run, when he considered it expedient to do so, he found that the brace was jammed. This prevented the sheet from running freely. Those who are now missing are Polly Faliey, No. 42, May-street, Waterloo ; Polly Stewart, No. D2, Caroline-street, Golden-grove, Evelcigh ; Kate Thompson, No. 462, Riley-«treeb.; and Horace Kippax, of No. 25, Smith street, Surrey Hills, who is a nephew of Alderman Kippax. Tho Miss Thompson, who died from the effects of the immersion she suffered, was a resident of No. 402, Rileystreet-, and a sister of one of the missing Kirls.