FATAL ACCIDENT AT LEY.
A correspondent writes from Pahi as follows :—On Thursday, the 26 th March, Captain Waters, of the s.s. Tangihua, received from the natives on the Otamatoa a bucket of wild honey, of which he and_ his crew partook on the following morning, when moored at Batley, being Good Friday. All of them felt ill, and Captain Waters blamed the honey, and instructed one of the hands named Harry Short to throw it overboard, which he went to do. A few minutes later on the captain going to where he expected to see Short, there was no trace of him or the bucket, only a smoking cap which he had on was floating a few yards from the steamer. He had fallen overboard and been drowned. A telegram was sent to Constable Abrams, making known the sad event. The body has since been found under the raft at Port Albert to which place Captain Waters was taking it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8530, 2 April 1891, Page 5
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