DROWNING FATALITY
BETWEEN PUYSEGUR' POINT Xl«l GOAL ISLAND. MAN AND WOMAN VICTIMS. (Pn United Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, August 27. News of a double drowning tatality in the vicinity of Puysegur lighthouse reached town to-day, but particulars of the occurrence are necessarily meagre. The lighthouse keeper at Puysegur Point announced by telephone that the wife of one of the keepers being ill, a man named Smith went to Coal Island in an open boat to obtain the services of Mrs Louden to nurse a sick woman. As the boat was returning it capsized, both passengers being drowned. The-body of Mrs Louden had been recovered when the news came through, bat there was then no news of the recovery of the 'body of Smith. A sorrowful feature of the tragedy is that Mrs Louden's husband, who is employed at Coal Island, will be unacquainted with the news of his wife's fate until communioated with by Morse signals at nightfall. ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16164, 28 August 1914, Page 4
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