ANOTHER DEATH BY DROWNING AT THE BULLER.
On Tuesday last, the 3rd Feb., a man named Simpson, the ferryman at the point of the Buller where the Lyell joins it, was drowned while crossing at the rapids in a canoe. There was a good deal of ■water in the river, and the cross-currents were strong, causing a nasty motion in the water. Simpson and six other men were crossing in the canoe, which in the roughest part was capsized. The six men that deceased was taking across contrived to get on the canoe, and succeeded in saving themselves, but Simpson was drowned. His body was seen to rise almost immediately and close by the canoe, and then fall forward on its face and disappear. This was in the centre of the whirl made by the waters, |but he made no sign or motion, and it is the opinion of the men that he must have struck the rocks with his head as he went down, and been either dead or insensible. The body had not been recovered. Simpson was about forty-five years of age.
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Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 770, 10 March 1865, Page 7
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184ANOTHER DEATH BY DROWNING AT THE BULLER. Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 770, 10 March 1865, Page 7
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