BOATING FATALITY.
LOSS OP FOUR LIVES FEARED. [OX TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday. This afternoon Constable Hutton telegraphed from Plimmerton particulars of a sad boating fatality, in which it is feared that four lives have been lost. It appears that at ten o'clock this morning Peter Lamar, a fisherman, went out in a boat with five youths named Harry, ' Albert, George, and Thomas Manifold, and Archibald Haigh. At half-past ten o'clock it was seen from the shore that the boat had capsized, and two of the occupants were noticed to be clinging to the bottom of the upturned boat. Another boat put off from the shore, and rescued the two who were clinging to the capsized boat, namely, George and Thomas Manifold. Later. The police have been informed that the bodies of Harry and Albert Manifold were washed up on the beach at Plimmerton at six p.m. The bodies of Peter Lamar and Archibald Haigh are still missing. The latter was a partial cripple, aged 12 years. He had been spending a holiday at the seaside.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12239, 7 April 1903, Page 5
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