Seized by a Shark.
[Bt Telegbaph], Auckland, Feb. 3. A story of a sad death and of a very plucky attempted rescue is reported from Eaipara, It appears that whilst the Johanna Brodersen, Captain Hill, which brought tbe ostriches for New Zealand from Soath Africa, was lying off the Heads, *a boat astern somehow got adrift. Tbe ebbing tide was fast taking the boat away, when a seaman dived over to attempt to reach her, and had nearly reached the boat when his comrades on the vessel saw him struggle in tbe water with some unseen foe and disappear, no more to be seen. There was little doubt that a shark bad taken him ; but in face of this another sailor, wbqse name has not reached ns, sprang overboard to bis rescue. Nothing was, however, to be seen of the poor fellow by his plucky would be rescuer, who swam half a mile and then got into the boat.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4308, 4 February 1887, Page 3
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Seized by a Shark.
South Canterbury Times, Issue 4308, 4 February 1887, Page 3
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