A CCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
I'ALLS ASLEEP AND IS DROWNKP. (]’or Press Association.) Chrisb hureli, Last Night. Tlio Collector of Customs reports tint the captain of Hu; s.s. Vvairau on Sunday last picked up twenty miles seaward of Kaiapoi a brown punt, registered No. MS. 'l’llis belonged to tin; missing man named Fast, of Kaiapoi, who was last seen on Fridav, and of whom all trace has since been lost. The assumption now is that East, on leaving Kaiapoi on Friday night to proceed to his ILliing sta.lion at the bar, must have fallen asleep in his boat, and was carried out to sea.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 93, 9 June 1911, Page 5
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