FATAU ACCIDENT IN LYTTELTON HARBOR.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 763, 15 October 1886, Page 11

FATAU ACCIDENT IN LYTTELTON HARBOR.

A CAPTAIN AND SEAMAN DROWNED

(united press association.) Christchurch, October 10.

A boat belonging to the ship Rangitikei was capsized in Lyttelton Harbor about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Captain Edward Budd, of the ship Rangitikei, and a seaman named George Hawkins, were drowned. The accident happened off Ripa Island. The boat, with four men in her, was under sail, and it is supposed the shests were made fast. A sudden squall capsized her, and she sank. The captain and sailmaker supported themselves on an oar, but the former became exhausted and let go. The third mate, Mr Watkins, swam until picked up, but Hawkins, an A. 8., sank soon after the boat upset. The men working on Ripa Island hoisted a distress signal on seeing the accident, and Mr Mclntyre, in the yacht Moa, came up and saved the third officer and sailmaker. A boat sent out by the Garrison Artillery picked up Captain Budd, but he was dead. Hawkins’ body has not yet been recovered. Christchurch, October 11.

At the inqueßt to-day on the bodies of Captain Budd and seaman Ochedon, who were drowned on Saturday, the jury recommended that an acknowledgement of the prompt action taken by the crews of the yacht Neva

and the Armed Constabulary, by going to assist the drowning men, should be placed oh record. The verdict was accidental death. Auckland, October 11.

The vessels in harbor to-day carried their flags half-mast high in token of respect for the -memory of the late Captain Budd, master of the ship Rangitikei, drowned at Lyttelton. Dunedin, October 11.

The flags on the vessels in harbor were half-mast high, as a token of respect for Captain Budd, of the ship Rangitikei, drowned at Lyttelton.