AN OIL LAUNCH MISSING
SUPPOSED LOSS OF THREE LIVES. INVERCARGILL, April 19. Threo men, named Charlie Brown, George Saunders, and " Banjo" Jones, went fishing m an oil launch from Riverton on Friday morning, and it is feared that they are drowned Shortly after noon a gale, fierce, though short-lived, sprang up." The men did not return, and 'search parties went out. On Saturday the boat was found washed ashore on the Riverton Beach. From the nature of the movable articles found m the launch, it is considered improbable that she had capsized, but apparently she simply swamped. Inquiries along the coast from Bluff co Colac, and on Centre and Stewart Islands, have failed so far to reveal any traces of the meh.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2823, 22 April 1908, Page 29
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122AN OIL LAUNCH MISSING Otago Witness, Issue 2823, 22 April 1908, Page 29
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