FISHING BOAT WRECKED.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13412, 9 May 1912, Page 6

FISHING BOAT WRECKED.

FOUR LIVES PROBABLY LOST

TWO BODIES RECOVERED

[United Pkess Association.] /

Whangarei, May 8. On April 22nd the auxiliary nshing boat Lottie left Omaha for Whangarei with three Maoris, Tenatahi Brown, his wife, and a girl Lydia IS gore, and a European named E. G. Phillips,-aboard. On Sunday last pieces of wreckage were found in the vicinity of Whangaruru and created a suspicion that there .had been a disaster. Yesterday the boat was found, .a total wrack, and the dead bodies of Phillips and Ngero were fo"und on the beach ax, Mill Point, at the.&ntrance to Whangaruru. The fate of the other two occupants has not been ascertained, but there, is ctvery probability that both have been.drowned.