MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
Two Brothers Drowned.
(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This day. A sad accident occurred near Midhirsl on Sunday. William Vickers went out for cattle early yesterday, and mot returning at noon his 'brother Charles went to look for him. ‘ Neither returning by the evening a search party ,went out at 10 o’clock when both bodies, were found in the Lepopo river. It is supposed that William Vickers had entered the water for bathing and was taken with cramp, and his brother on finding his clothes on the bank entered the water to try and rescue the body, and had likewise been drowned.
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Patea Mail, Volume X, Issue 1316, 4 March 1885, Page 3
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104MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. Patea Mail, Volume X, Issue 1316, 4 March 1885, Page 3
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