MAN DROWNED WHILE FISHING.
-—ro , [nY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] ' Christchurch, Sunday. Last evening a man • named Samuel i Griffiths, sexton at Addington went to New Brighton with two friends to fish in the surf. They were, dragging » trawl-net, and were about up to their shoulders in water, when Griffiths, who was-, holding the spread, suddenly disappeared, j i and it is . supposed that he got into a hole; " and was carried away by the drawback, as he was never seen again. The body was washed up on the beach this morning, considerably mutilated by fish. Deceased was. . j married, and leaves a widow and four young children. <
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11879, 3 February 1902, Page 4
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