DROWNING OF A LAD
It is seldom that we lmvo to record a case of drowning in our livers. Both the TaruUeru and Wainiata rivers may be regfirded as very safe for boating mid swimming. Their breadth is not, great, nnd tho banks slopo gradually, the channel generally being narrow. As n rule, the ladsabout the town are nil good swimmers, and no fear is felt by parents) in allowing their boys out in the water. During the holidays many lads spend tho major" portion of their time bathing and boating. Early yesterday flfternorm a Jad named Charles Edward Prico left his home on the Whntaupoko, being last seen about 2 o'clock. After that hour nothing: more was known of the lad. In the evening he was missed by his parents and a search instituted, b,ut without success. Some plaything on a jetty suggested he had been there fishing, but there »vag no other <«lue to his whereabouts. This morning Mr John Walker, ex-Coast mailman", discovered the little boy's body on the hank of ttyp river, an.d it was conveyed homo. An inquest is being held at the parents' home this afternoon, before Mr Booth, Coroner, and a jury. The boy was about eight years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5671, 18 January 1890, Page 2
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205DROWNING OF A LAD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5671, 18 January 1890, Page 2
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