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New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 29

A sad fatality occurred in the harbour yesterday afternoon, when a young man William Millman, son of Captain Millman, of tho steamer Corinna, met his death by drowning, whilst on a yachting excursion. Three young men named William and Alfred Millman, residing at No. 15, Hawker street, and Arthur Frederick Palmer, residing in Scarborough terrace, left town in the morning in the yacht Te Aroa for Ngahauranga, where they had dinner at one of the hotels. They then started for Petone. When off Somes Island, William Alillman got into the dingey, not recognising the danger he ran in view of the choppy sea, and the rate at which the yacht was sailing. The small boat upset. His companions threw oareKto him, but lie was unable tc grasp.them. Then they put the yachf about, and sailed close enough to him tc allow his brother to grasp his jersey. But the garment tore and gave way, and AVilliam was drawn underneath tho yacht and sank. The sad fatality was reported to the polico at Petone. „• Referring to the item in our London letter which stated that Battle Abbey had been purchased by Sir Augustus Webster,. Mr J. French Lydall writes:— “It is interesting to note that this ancient ruin now reverts to the Webster family, to whom it belonged somo hundreds of years ago.”