BOATING CATASTROPHE.
SEVEN LIVES LOST.
Press Association.— Electric Telegraph.—
Sydney", December 26. A terrible boatiftg fatality occurred te-day on the Minnimarra river, three miles from Kiaraa, a town about 100 miles south of Sydney, A party numbering eight persons -were returning from a picnic in a punt, when the breakage of an oar rendered the craft unmanageable, and caused her to drift down the river to the open sea. In passing through the surf the punt capsized. Another boat put off to the rescue, and successfully negotiated the breakers, but all the occupants of the punt, with the exception of Mrs. Woods, who was rescued, had disappeared before the scene of the accident was reached. The names of those drowned are Miss Pike, two girls and a boy named Woods, Captain and Mrs. Honey, aud Mr. Woods. The latter swam for three-quarters of a mile, and when he was seen about 150 yards from the shore, two men swam out to assist him. They were unable to do more than bring his dead body ashore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9394, 28 December 1893, Page 5
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