FATAL BOAT ACCIDENTS.
FOUR LIVES LOST. WELLINGTON, July 28.
About 1 o'clock) this afternoon a fishing boat containing William Clout, his son William, and another man named Thomas Lacy, all residents of Island Bay, capsized during: a squall off Sinclair Head, Island Bay. All three wero drowned. The occurrence was witnessed by a party of fishermen. The bodies have not yet been recovered. INVEROARGILL, July 28.
Charles Princp, a young man employed ia boating firewood to (he Belmont drodge, nowworking- at the mouth of the Waiau, was drowned this morning. He and Alf. Daniel were in the boat, wbieh was attached to the dredge, when it took a sheer in tho strong current, and went bow 3 under. Both men jumped clear of thp boat, and Daniel reached the bank, but Prince, when nearing the shore, was sucked down by an eddy, and did not Ti',a again, l'rinco was a married man, and belonged to Winton.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 26
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