ANOTHER BATHING FATALITY.
A YOUNG LADY DROWNED,
PLUCKY CONDUCT OF TWO BOYS. [Br TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.]
Wellington, Monday, Another sad drowning accident, tho third which has happened in the neighbourhood of Wellington within the lust few days, happened at Island Bay this morning. The circumstances are that two young ladies, named Miss Olive Goldfinch, about 17, daughter of the late Mr. J. M. Goldfinch, chief clerk in the Police Department, and Miss Lillia Brown, daughter of Mr. S. Brown, Hanson-street, went to bathe of] the rocks along Queen's Drive, about 200 yards distant from the Island Bay Hotel. By some misadventure they both got into deep water and sank. The accident was seen by Masters Harold Von Dadelszen and Percy Kinniburgh, students at tho Wellington College. Von Dadelszen Went in and oventually succeeded in bringing Miss Brown safely ashore exhausted, but alive. Her companion had sunk out of sight. Young Kintiiburgh dived and recovored the body of Miss Goldfinch, but although remedies were promptly used it was too late to save life. Both lads showed bravery worthy of the highest commendation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10021, 7 January 1896, Page 5
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180ANOTHER BATHING FATALITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10021, 7 January 1896, Page 5
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